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Earlier versions framed Battery Park Apartments and the city's public housing as serving "the same kind of neighbor," presenting the contrast in their condition as a near-controlled experiment. Battery Park is in fact restricted to low-income seniors (age 62 and over), while public housing serves families and individuals of every age. Both pieces now disclose that difference. The argument is unchanged: the gap in condition traces to the financing platform each building can reach, not to the residents.
Two figures from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies were mislabeled "as of 2024." The cost-burden shares (58 percent of older renters, 43 percent of older homeowners with a mortgage) are 2023 data; the count of about 11.2 million cost-burdened older adults, up from 9.7 million in 2016, is from 2021. The older-homeowner share was also corrected from 44 to 43 percent. Separately, the Urban Institute's 37 percent rise in older-adult homelessness between 2019 and 2022 refers specifically to sheltered homelessness, and the text now says so.
The musical-chairs framework was misattributed. It belongs to the sociologist Kay Young McChesney, "Family Homelessness: A Systemic Problem," Journal of Social Issues 46, no. 4 (1990). An earlier version misnamed her and conflated her paper with a separate 1990 editorial of a similar title by Elliott D. Sclar in the American Journal of Public Health. Both are now cited correctly.
An earlier version said food insecurity "roughly doubles" the odds of depression. The meta-analysis cited (Pourmotabbed et al., Public Health Nutrition, 2020) supports about 40 percent higher odds overall, and about 75 percent higher for adults 65 and over. The text and footnote now match the study.
The national supply figure was corrected from 37 to 35 affordable and available homes per 100 extremely low-income renter households, per NLIHC's The Gap (2026). The 37 matched no edition of the report.
Earlier versions described the 1980s federal housing cuts with three differing sets of figures drawn from different budget series. All three pieces now use one sourced framing: budget authority for subsidized housing peaked at about $82 billion in 1978 (in constant dollars) and was cut by more than half in the early 1980s (NLIHC / Cushing Dolbeare, Changing Priorities, 2002).
Point-in-time figures updated to the 2026 count: 824 people (334 unsheltered), conducted February 10, 2026. A note was added where year-over-year comparisons appear: the count's methodology expanded in 2024, so part of the rise since then reflects better counting as well as more people.
MANNA FoodBank pantry-visit figures updated to current reporting: more than 200,000 monthly visits as of mid-2026, the highest sustained level in the organization's history, up from roughly 158,000 before Hurricane Helene.