Rising homelessness in NYC is brought to new light when one considers the long relationship between poverty and housing goes back long time in the Big Apple

A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOMELESSNESS IN NEW YORK

City Limits – Perhaps the earliest chronicles of homeless New Yorkers can be attributed to Jacob Riis. A journalist and precursor in the art of documentary photography, Riis emigrated from Denmark in the mid 19th century and quickly focused his attention on the homeless.