Housing Archives

Three police officers stand behind yellow police-line tape. Behind them, workers in safety vests pack tents and other items into crates.

Police Know Arrests Won’t Fix Homelessness. They Keep Making Them Anyway.

by Melissa Lewis June 23, 2022June 22, 2022

As unhoused people increasingly live in residential neighborhoods, their new neighbors have turned to one place for help in particular: the police.

A police officer stands in the foreground, a rose visible on the butt of their gun. In the background is a houseless person packing up their belongings.

Housing

Handcuffed and Unhoused

by Melissa Lewis, Emily Harris, Cynthia Rodriguez, Taki Telonidis, Andy Donohue, Soo Oh, David Rodriguez, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Claire Mullen, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson April 16, 2022April 23, 2022

A hidden side of homelessness: Unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.

Housing

Handcuffed and Unhoused

by Melissa Lewis, Emily Harris, Cynthia Rodriguez, Taki Telonidis, Soo Oh, Andy Donohue, David Rodriguez, Amy Mostafa, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Steven Rascón, Claire Mullen, Kevin Sullivan and Al Letson December 18, 2021December 18, 2021

As homelessness rises, unhoused people often get entangled in a criminal justice cycle that leads back to the streets – or worse.

An illustration shows a map of the united states made out of people, with a large DENIED stamp on top

Kept Out

The secret bias hidden in mortgage-approval algorithms

by Emmanuel Martinez and Lauren Kirchner August 25, 2021August 25, 2021

Even accounting for factors lenders said would explain disparities, people of color are denied mortgages at significantly higher rates than White people.

Amber Moreland sits on the stairs inside her rental home in Akron, Ohio, surrounded by boxes and furniture that she and her family are rushing to move.

Inequality

Eviction moratoriums didn’t stop judges in one Ohio city from ousting hundreds from their homes

by Noor Hindi August 5, 2021August 6, 2021

Tenants were evicted even when landlords didn’t follow the publicly stated rules.

Pete Buttigieg smiles and waves from a stage with a purple background.

Accountability, Housing

Mayor Pete has a redlining problem in Indiana

by Aaron Glantz February 28, 2020June 30, 2021

While presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was mayor of South Bend, most home loans in his town went to white families in white neighborhoods.

Housing, Inequality

Public housing tenants get $650,000 settlement for squalid living conditions

by Amy Julia Harris January 24, 2019January 24, 2019

A Reveal investigation showed that officials allowed the housing project in Richmond, California to be overrun with roaches, mice, squatters and mold.