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Vacant storefront with for rent signs.

Mirror on bathroom wall depicts structural problems within this room and the generally inadequate living conditions here.

Image focusses on a corner of an apartment building stairwell, in which bags of garbage, a broken toilet, and other items have been discarded. One can also see the general filth of the building and the extremely narrow stairwells that contribute to…

Image shows an upward view of the ceiling of a bathroom and part of a shower curtain. Cracks in the ceiling are being held together by some sort of tape, demonstrating inadequate and unsafe living conditions.

A vacant lot between two New York City apartment buildings is blocked off by a large blue fence, indicating a new building is being built. The road in front of the sidewalk is cordoned off by an orange mesh construction fence.

A rundown room with a collapsed roof in a building in Chinatown in New York City. There are red signs with Chinese characters taped on the side and up the door frame at the room entrance, with the one at the latter beginning to peel off. Inside the…

A sign that reads "STORE FOR RENT," alongside a phone number, hangs over a store with a closed metal shutter, the latter which has unreadable graffiti painted over it. This picture was most likely taken in Chinatown in New York City.

Protestors holding signs create a circle outside of 401 East 84th Street in New York City.

Picture of an apartment building at 123 Baxter Street in Chinatown (Manhattan). A sign on the building reads "DOWNTOWN DEFINED [...] www.123baxterstreet.com."

Five "For Rent" signs are fixed to a building in Chinatown (Manhattan). The signs partially obscure tenants' windows.