Cracks are appearing in New York City's improvised network of
emergency housing for more than 1,000 people who remain homeless
nearly a month after superstorm Sandy, including scores of hotel
rooms paid for with public money that have been vacant for
weeks.  At the Milford Plaza Hotel in Midtown, 120 rooms paid
for by the city at a nightly rate of at least $295 have gone
unused since mid-November, according to documents reviewed by
The Wall Street Journal. Knocks on the doors of dozens of the
rooms went unanswered this week.  The tab for the vacant rooms
at the Milford will be just under $1 million, according to the
documents. A City Hall spokeswoman said the total cost of the
post-storm housing program hadn't been calculated.  Philippe
Drice has been relocated three times since Sandy struck. Peter
J. Smith for The Wall Street Journal  Beyond the wasted hotel
rooms, New Yorkers displaced by the storm pose a daunting
challenge to city officials charged with finding them places to
stay as temperatures drop belo