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This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home

Even before the COVID pandemic, nearly 60,000 New Yorkers – 40 percent of them children – slept in city-run shelters and more than half of the city’s residents were rent-burdened, paying more than a third of their income for housing. In This Is All I Got, author Lauren Sandler makes these issues personal by following Camila, a young, homeless single mother for a year as she tried to find stability and shelter in New York City.