Gotham’s Right-to-Shelter Promise—and Its Homeless Problem
Cruel to Be Kind?
In Bill de Blasio’s New York, a renewed effort to keep a unique obligation to give every person shelter is struggling to keep pace with harsh economic realities.
It’s in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but in the United States, to varying degrees, only three places in America guarantee the most vulnerable a warm place to sleep: Washington, D.C.,
