High rental costs contribute to making New York the second state with the most homeless people in the US.

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because we will have a morningquite studied, the scarfand maybe the glovescan leavepresenter: on other topics,the state would be in thissuch a daunting list.reporter: falling from arefuge with his seven-year-old babymonths in arms, we metthis Dominican mother whohe preferred to hide his face.>> reality is not easy.reporter: do you have a job?>> no, i’m six years old in thispee and I have never been able to renta department.reporter: she is part of todayfrom the statistics, arecent report reveals that582,462 Americans do notthey have where to boil because notcan afford the high costsfor rent.new york ranks secondplace of the pee with 74,178including 21,805 children who did not>> the more the buildings we haveapproximately every 6500families and a total of 2700children.reporter: we had access toshelters run bythis organization.>> it’s really a challenge thatwe have all the suppliersof shelters is higher.reporter: it’s obviouslack of shelters in the cityand shows us what one looks likefamiliar.>> this is one of therooms that accommodate onefamily of three members.reporter: what are you doingyou to help thosewho can’t pay the rent?> we are trying to clear alaw that extends theeligibility for families oflow resources.reporter: yes or someone whohe knows he can’t for himrent, you should only