homeless Sandy victims

Richard Fabio, 53, has become adept at living in a hotel room. He darts to the bathroom sink to fill his coffee machine with a small water bottle. It takes several trips in tight quarters, made tighter by bags of unwashed clothes that seem to be everywhere.

NEW YORK—A judge has blocked the city’s plan to end a program that would have put hundreds of New Yorkers out on the street on April 30.