![]() More than 50 percent of tenants in the city are rent-burdened, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing costs. Last year, some 3,510 eviction warrants were issued. ![]() During the 2016–17 school year, the city school district reported that 8.8 percent of its students-roughly 2,500 children-were homeless at some point. In Rochester, a midsize postindustrial city on Lake Ontario’s southern shore, evidence of the crisis is everywhere. These places, these people, and so many others like them represent the face of today’s housing crisis-a crisis so pervasive and enduring that it has become this country’s status quo. At least, McGriff says, “I am still there.” 3 Soon after, the foreclosure notice arrived, sparking a decade-long battle with the police, the courts, and the bank, and turning her into an insecure tenant in her own home. ![]() But when Wall Street went under, McGriff lost her job and, with it, her ability to pay the mortgage. A resolute black woman in her 50s, she bought the place before the 2008 financial collapse. Meanwhile, across town on the east side sits the modest two-story home of Liz McGriff. ![]()
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