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Illustration by Nan Lee

Rent Sucks

A weeklong series about the miseries of how we live now, and what a better future for housing might look like

Illustration by Nan Lee

Rent Sucks

A weeklong series about the miseries of how we live now, and what a better future for housing might look like

Illustration by Nan Lee

The Enduring Fiction of Affordable Housing

These public-private partnerships skate by on their complexity and branding, but they undermine a future where housing is a right.

Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal

Inside the Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago

For those who live there, Chicago’s Ewing Annex Hotel is a refuge, an artifact, and a last chance. The man who’s been holding it together for more than 20 years is about to retire.

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.