Samantha Maldonado

A woman with a young son started looking for a place before her lease expired, but even her most far-fetched solutions — Buy an RV? — haven’t panned out.Felicia Russo says her friends tell her she seems calm. But she says she’s freaking out on the inside: Her housing search is keeping her up at

In Bushwick, the neighborly ‘hello’ in the hallway led to hanging out in each other’s apartments, and spirited theater-karaoke nights singing show tunes. Emily Zaboski sometimes struggles to describe her living situation to people she meets.“Everybody we know is like, ‘Wait, so you just — you have two apartments?’ And I’m like, ‘Well, no, but