The increased value has made it easier for people living in shelters to financially qualify for renting apartments, but city records show that a relatively small percentage were actually able to move out of shelters and into a new home.
Cops took a train March 18 to reach Anthony Sanchez's hideway in a tunnel off the Delancey-Essex subway station beneath the Lower East Side. There the officers found him amid his home furnished with milk crates, a wheelchair and other loose debris, photos show.
Mayor has touted the opening of hundreds of new shelter beds. But homeless advocates have raised questions about what types of beds they are and whether any of them are actually “new.”