In the shadows of America's cities, a hidden world exists—low-wage workers living in budget hotels, trapped between homelessness and stability. Karen Lippowiths's EXTENDED STAY is a photographic exploration into the quiet epidemic often overlooked: families, seniors, and workers who can’t afford rent but don’t qualify for shelters. Hotels become makeshift homes, safety nets riddled with holes of instability. Each image captures the joys, the pain, resilience, dignity, and quiet despair of those caught in this limbo.