> We ended SROs, “boarding houses” and most forms of tenements, but offered no replacements.

This is huge and so often overlooked. SROs used to number in the hundreds of thousands in NYC and most major US cities.

They were cheap and helped keep people off the street. But we banned them slowly and just expected people to find larger, more expensive homes. And without any support.

People like to say “no one should have to live like that” but it’s better than nothing.