Hiram Durán
THE CITY: Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
Jeff Wolford in his hotel room, April 6, 2021. Mayor Bill de Blasio has set July 1 as the day the city is expected to fully reopen amid rising vaccination rates and decreasing infections. That’s also the day the city has suggested it will complete its transition of people from hotels back to the homeless shelter system, where people were 61% more likely to die of COVID than anywhere else at the height of the pandemic last spring.