Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Invisible child: Poverty, survival and Hope in an American city

Before finding their way to Auburn Family Residence, a city-run shelter, Dasani's family was renting a house on Staten Island with the help of a rent subsidy program called Advantage. Within two years of moving to Staten Island, they were homeless. What happened?

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Over time, the house became infested by bed bugs, and the family's rent subsidy expired. Shortly after, Mayor Bloomberg ended the Advantage plan, which once again created homelessness.

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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, pg. 138

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