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.

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.

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.

Even in a pandemic, we are stuck in the same nightmarish feedback loop of racist policy. The results are predictable and deadly.