"We want our home and our property back. We are not trash out there on the street. We're hard-working people. We do not deserve to be treated like this. Fair is fair."

Delay, Deception, Displacement

"Stability isn’t given to women like Natalie. It's clawed back, shift by shift, dollar by dollar, day after long, exhausting day . . . while her children grow up without her and the system looks away."

A Mother Elephant Never Forgets

"What’s worse? An absentee owner totally ignorant of the deplorable conditions on his own property or one who knows and just doesn't give a damn?"

No Clemency for the Mansfield Inn

"The Leland Hotel’s story is a classic tale told in contemporary form: the usurping of rights and property for private gain. This narrative is not confined to history books. In 2026, it unfolds in sterile courtrooms and corporate offices."

Socialized Risk, Privatized Profit: Detroit's Leland Hotel as a Blueprint for Displacement

"Revisiting my old apartment brought with it a complicated tenderness: a quiet sorrow for the twenty-something girl who learned hard lessons about herself and others behind the closed door of apartment 1B. housing market and wider changing economy."

Walking with Old Ghosts

a look from behind the lens

STORIES

"She was forced to leave her home of 15 years with a day’s notice and little more than the clothing on her back."

Unmoored in Detroit: The Human Cost of a Broken Housing System