Elderly suffering in NYC housing crisis
The US city has fewer market-rate housing options for older people than other major metropolitan areas. By Mireya Navarro and Vivian Yee
New York
NUBIA Chavez and Manuel Acuña have been bouncing from rental to rental around New York City like millennials. They recently decamped to a US$700-a-month room in a Queens apartment, with a shared bathroom and no access to the kitchen except to make coffee.
But Ms Chavez, a housekeeper, and Mr Acuña, a retired building porter, are not in their 20s. They are 65 and 72, and they say they are tired - of the moving, of the lack of permanency and of a lifestyle not suited to their age.
"I want to live in my own place," Ms Chavez said. "No more rooms."
Jennifer Stock, 33, has been looking f…
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