'Unsheltered' Takes A Deep Dive into NYC's Housing Crisis

Midday on WNYC | May 29, 2018

Kim Barker, a New York Times reporter, and N.R. "Sonny" Kleinfield, freelance writer and former staff writer at The New York Times' Metro desk, discuss The New York Times series "Unsheltered." The series examines NYC's broken system for protecting tenants and affordable apartments. Kleinfield's story is titled "Where Brooklyn Tenants Plead the Case for Keeping Their Homes" and Barker's story is titled "Behind New York's Housing Crisis: Weakened Laws and Fragmented Regulation."

This segment is guest hosted by DW Gibson. 

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