Christopher Connelly
One Crisis Away ReporterChristopher Connelly is a reporter covering issues related to financial instability and poverty for KERA’s One Crisis Away series. In 2015, he joined KERA to report on Fort Worth and Tarrant County. From Fort Worth, he also focused on politics and criminal justice stories.
Before coming to Texas, Christopher covered the Maryland legislature for the NPR member station in Baltimore. He also worked at NPR as a Joan B. Kroc Fellow – one of three post-graduates who spend a year working as a reporter, show producer and digital producer at network HQ in Washington, D.C.
Christopher is a graduate of Antioch College in Ohio – he got his first taste of public radio there at WYSO – and he earned a master’s in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.
Email Christopher at cconnelly@kera.org. You can follow Christopher on Twitter @hithisischris.
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A new report finds a massive shortage in Texas of rental homes affordable to extremely low-income renter households — one of the worst in the nation..
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Volunteers packed bags and boxes of food to help refugee families put a proper evening meal on the table during the Muslim holy month.
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A Dallas County judge removed all but one of the defendants who are seeking to build the Cypress Creek at Forest Lane apartments from a lawsuit aimed at blocking the affordable housing project.
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Housing prices are up. Polls say Americans are worried and want elected officials to do something about it. And few politicians seem to be hitting the campaign trail with a pitch to be Congress’s housing problem-solver, at least in North Texas.
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A broad coalition campaigned for $200 million to help fund affordable housing in Dallas. City council members had other priorities for the $1.25 billion bond package.
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The Child Poverty Action Lab tracked how nearly 1,300 eviction cases played out in justice of the peace courts that typically produce little data.
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The City of Dallas will begin admitting people to a temporary inclement weather shelter at Fair Park at 3 p.m. as frigid weather raises risks for unsheltered people. Fort Worth and Arlington nonprofits are coordinating to make sure people who need shelter can find a bed out of the cold.
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The upward march of home prices also drove a decline in affordability and increased displacement pressure around Downtown Dallas.
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Owners of an office building next to the proposed Cypress Creek at Forest Lane apartments say the City of Dallas and developers violated their property rights.
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A new report finds the food and health assistance program could start turning eligible women, infants and children away if Congress does not increase funding.
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Council members, city staff and the city's bond task force all have different priorities. But how will they decide what to ask voters to spend a billion-dollar bond on?
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The council will hear recommendations from city staff for how to allocate $1.1 billion in bond funds to address the city’s brick-and-mortar needs from housing, arts and parks to storm water management and streets.