Irma Garcia-Vargas, who lives with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, struggled to find stable housing and treatment years after she moved to New York.
Garcia-Vargas, who came to the city from Puerto Rico in 2016, cycled in and out of city shelters, where she said it was difficult to access help for her mental illness. She found herself intermittently living back on the streets or in psychiatric hospitalization, and she became separated from her five children.
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