A new report out Wednesday from the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness is shedding new light on homelessness in the city. The independent research organization has put together a map that shows how the crisis is being shouldered across the five boroughs.

The report found that most of the shelters are located in neighborhoods like the South Bronx, East New York and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Meanwhile, 20 City Council Districts, many in Queens, have no shelters. Ralph da Costa Núñez, president and CEO of the institute that released the study, said poor families are being driven to poor neighborhoods where they must compete for a dwindling amount of cheap housing. 

"When that happens, you suddenly have family versus family, poor versus poor. And whoever is going to be the biggest breadwinner, they will survive and stay in that neighborhood. And those that can't will go into a shelter in that neighborhood or some other poor neighborhood," da Costa Núñez said.

He spoke Tuesday with WNYC's Amy Eddings.

Location of Family Shelters, Welfare Hotels, and Cluster Site Offices in New York City