Domestic Violence Drives Up New York Shelter Population as Housing Options Are Scarce

The New York Times
Domestic Violence Drives Up New York Shelter Population as Housing Options Are Scarce
By MIREYA NAVARRONOV. 10, 2014

First came Hurricane Sandy, which left her homeless for a time.

Then came the live-in boyfriend, who battered her.

Now the 44-year-old mother of three young children is homeless again, forced into a shelter by the abuse and trapped there by poverty and the paucity of living options in a city woefully short on affordable housing.

She worked as a hairdresser and her clients were in her old neighborhood. But so was the ex-boyfriend, said the woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“My best bet,” she said, “is not to go back.”....

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