Rented rooms help homeowners and housing needs New City, N.Y.: There is a simple solution to relieving the current housing affordability crisis: Make boarding houses legal again! Did you know that Edgar Allan Poe wrote the poem “The Raven” while living in Mary Brennan’s farm house located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side? In today’s housing market, would Poe have been homeless? In New York, there are hundreds of thousands of empty-nest elderly homeowners who struggle financially while living lonely lives of solitude. Passing a law allowing homeowners to have legal roommates will have an immediate effect upon excessive apartment rental...