The Guardian • August 2023 New York is building the world’s tallest jail in Chinatown. Can anyone stop it? A brutal symbol of incarceration, or the sign of an improving justice system?
The Guardian • August 2023 ‘The police see us as disposable’: what life’s really like in New York’s maligned ‘red light district’ "People need to survive. And we’re not going anywhere."
The Guardian • May 2023 Will America’s first ‘right to sleep outside’ actually help unhoused people? It leaves out the one right that would actually solve homelessness: housing.
The Guardian • May 2023 ‘It’s a failure of the system’: before Jordan Neely was killed, he was discarded How did Jordan Neely fall through New York City's sprawling safety net?
The Guardian • May 2023 ‘I thought they’d kill us’: how the US navy devastated a tiny Puerto Rican island For 60+ years, the US Navy fired explosives on Vieques. Today, the islanders still suffer the devastating consequences.
Curbed • March 2023 What if we made It easier for renters to buy their buildings? A new bill in Albany would give tenants the right to purchase their buildings — and the funding to do it.
The Guardian • March 2023 ‘It’s legal, there’s just no precedent’: the first US town to demand a rent decrease When housing prices soared in Kingston, it tried something no other city had ever done.
Curbed • December 2022 The crumbling building where no one claims to be the landlord The strange case of a Crown Heights building that no landlord claims to own.
Curbed • November 2022 What happens when you house more than 1,000 refugees on a cruise ship? Temporary cruise-ship housing for migrants has become a real trend — does it work?
Dwell • November 2022 They built ‘The Woks of Life’ from home. Now they’re cooking things up from a new one It feels like part of a modern Chinese American fantasy.
The Guardian • June 2022 Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project “People looking to make money, not lose it.”