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
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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.
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