A new Brooklyn shelter offers unhoused families with kids a chance at more stability

The Fort Greene Family Center, a Brooklyn homeless shelter, has 105 units for families with kids.

Courtesy of Westhab

• A new Brooklyn shelter offers apartment-style transitional housing for formerly homeless families.
• The building could be turned into permanent housing if shelter demand falls.
• Notably, the shelter faced little opposition from the community, its owner said.

Across the street from Brooklyn's leafy Fort Greene Park, dozens of formerly homeless...