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 near record share of American households pay more for housing than is considered financially healthy, including almost a quarter of Dallas-Fort Worth homeowners.
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The National Low-Income Housing Coalition reports that low-income Texans face a housing market where truly affordable rent is largely out of reach.
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The Dallas City Council took what could be a final vote related to Cypress Creek, a proposed mixed-income apartment complex near North Central Expressway and Forest Lane.
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At a World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth event at the Dallas College Richland Campus, Congressman Colin Allred sat down with KERA’s Christopher Connelly to talk about a range of domestic and global issues.
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The end of pandemic-era food assistance came at a steep cost for many North Texans.
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Texas cities may soon have less power to protect the air you breathe, work site safety or guarantee your rights as a renter after the Texas Legislature passed HB 2127.
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Dallas’ head of homeless services said Tuesday that city policies helped reduce homelessness, but much more funding is needed to continue that progress.
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Dallas will get more federal help as part of a Biden Administration strategy to reduce the nation’s unsheltered homeless population.
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A bill is moving through the Texas Legislature that would make it illegal for cities or counties to protect renters from eviction.
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If Dallas is serious about increasing access to affordable housing, it’d need to ask voters to approve about $150 million in funding in the 2024 bond election.
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Inflation and the end of pandemic-era spending has more Texans turning to food banks that have faced cuts and struggle to meet increased need with declining resources.
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A lawsuit challenging the ordinance argues the ordinance is an unconstitutional panhandling ban that violates the First Amendment. The city says it’s a public safety measure meant to save lives.