A Child's Homeless Life

New York Times-Invisible Child: Dasani's Homeless Life   By Andrea Elliott

Gracie Mansion is something of an oddity. In a city with a 2 percent vacancy rate and a shortage of public housing, the mayoral residence sits uninhabited on 11 pristine acres of the Upper East Side. . . . What impresses Dasani most are not the architectural details or the gold-bound volumes of Chaucer and Tolstoy, but the astonishing lack of dust. She runs her hand lightly over the top of a Steinway piano.  “I tell you,” she says. “This house is clean.”  Read the entire article.