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Housing Discrimination
June 23, 2021
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Rebecca Burns
Like Airbnb, but for Flophouses
A Georgia start-up aims to become the Airbnb for temporary shared housing. It calls it a solution to the housing crisis. Former tenants tell a different story.
March 31, 2021
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Megan Evershed
How an Upper West Side Hotel Came to Embody the City’s Failure on Homelessness
For nearly a year, the men of the Lucerne hotel have seen the worst of the city’s self-described liberal residents. They’ve also exposed a decades-long policy failure in permanent housing.
March 30, 2021
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Zito Madu
Living Through Detroit’s Perpetual Housing Crisis
The story of my block is the story of Detroit, a majority Black city where so many Black residents still find it nearly impossible to get by.
April 15, 2020
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Nick Martin
A New York Garbage Map Reveals the Virus of White Supremacy
Even in a pandemic, we are stuck in the same nightmarish feedback loop of racist policy. The results are predictable and deadly.
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