41.   Homeless families have become all but invisible to many New Yorkers.

42.   Homeless families receive the majority of the few apartments that turn over each year.

43.   Homeless families were filling up shelters and welfare hotels.

44.   Homeless families with infants have slept in a crowded, filthy office for days at a time while waiting to be processed into the system.

45.   If there are not enough beds, women are referred to Emergency Assistance Units, where they must wait with all other homeless families for temporary shelter.

46.   In New York City, by comparison, a homeless family spends an average of seven months in temporary housing before finding a permanent apartment.

47.   In October, Oesterreich said, the city began increasing a bonus paid to landlords who rent to homeless families, but it has not eased the bottleneck.

48.   In one program, the city filled buildings with homeless families.

49.   It also has high rates of homeless families and adolescents with venereal disease, she added.

50.   James lived in a variety of tough situations before his family connected with Save the Families, an agency that helps homeless families get back on their feet.