Holocaust Survivor Faces Housing Crisis in New York City Amid Rising Costs
Sami Steigmann, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, is struggling to find affordable and safe housing in New York City due to rising living costs. Steigmann, who has lived in the city since the 1980s, currently resides in a second-story apartment in Harlem, which he can no longer safely navigate due to his age and health issues stemming from medical experiments he endured as a child in a Nazi labor camp. Despite campaign promises from city leaders like Mayor Zohran Mamdani to improve housing affordability, Steigmann's request for a meeting with the mayor went unmet. Steigmann's fixed income of $1,649 per month is insufficient to cover the high rent prices in New York, where a one-bedroom apartment can cost around $6,000 a month. Efforts are being made by community organizations to assist him, including a fundraising initiative by the Chicago Jewish Alliance to secure stable housing for him. 
