He said the county needed 750 temporary apartments now.

He went back to his temporary apartment, where later that day his daughter came in with the ice cream for her boys and the drugs.

The couple stayed briefly with a daughter, then found a temporary apartment, commission-free, on 49th Street.

There are 5,400 families in the system and only 4,200 temporary apartments available.

During the renovation, the 105 current residents have been given the use of temporary apartments.

Many had shuffled from one temporary apartment to the next, adrift in a city focused on the dead.

They returned to Manhattan and found another temporary apartment, in the East 90's.

The 37 residents, including several children, are now scattered about the area in cramped temporary apartments.

A year ago, some 3,450 families lived in temporary apartments while waiting for a permanent home.

Still other families have been moved to temporary apartments, where they can stay for up to 18 months.