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Thousands of people don’t have stable housing, sleeping on floors and couches and packed into too-small bedrooms. But they are not considered to be homeless.
By Sarah Maslin Nir
At night, the Brooklyn apartment where Kimberly Diaz, 25, was trying to raise her two small daughters was a minefield of clothing, toys and fitfully sleeping bodies.
In one bedroom were her twin brother, youngest brother and godfather, while her brother-in-law and his sons slept in the second bedroom. She shared a twin bed in another room with her two girls, and her sister and her five children piled onto air mattresses at their feet.
