Adi Talwar
Nora Huertero (43) and Fabián Bravo(38) with two of their three children Samantha Bravo (14) and Donato Huertero (20) at their one bedroom apartment in Sunset Park Brooklyn. Their youngest child Nathan Bravo (8) was at school at the time the photograph was made. Nora has rented the apartment since 1995.
The housing market is shedding three-bedroom units, and the mayor’s affordable-housing plan is producing few of them, leaving larger families in cramped quarters.
‘I’m reminded the cells on Rikers are so hot — that the walls sweat. There was no air. I had to lay on the floor naked, to suck a little bit of air from a slit on the floor, just to breathe.’
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