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She has enough money to live, thanks to the government, says Behlor Santi in this excerpt from her upcoming memoir about living in New York with a diagnosis of mental illness. But what she really longs for is a home she can decorate and call her own.
Women and children are driving up a homeless population that can’t afford to pay New York City’s high rents. One woman’s effort to leave a city shelter after almost three years shows the financial tightrope she must walk.
Finding an apartment to rent in India’s New Delhi as a single Western woman proved a challenge, as journalist Miranda Kennedy recounts in an excerpt from her book, “Sideways on a Scooter.” Then, she created a fictional husband.