Kevin Atlanta was homeless until this summer. NY1 met him at a shelter in Queens — a facility run by the nonprofit group Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) similar to where he had stayed — a place that caters to the chronically homeless.

“I had been homeless longer than I should have been, but to nobody’s fault but my own, around three or four years,” he said.

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Atlanta stayed on the streets, struggling with mental illness and substance use.

“I been self-medicating a lot when I was out on the street,” he said. “It was hard to live in Manhattan and accept the looks t

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