Christopher Connelly
Government Accountability Reporter/EditorChristopher 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 shows renters and homeowners are under significant strain from housing costs. Housing affordability is slipping faster in Texas than the national average. -
The Biden Administration is fighting legal challenges in federal courts in Texas from business interests trying to kill its consumer protections. -
A Feeding America report found almost 1 in 4 Texas households with children are food insecure, with almost 1.7 million children at risk of getting inadequate nutrition. -
Brittany Barnett began her crusade to help free people locked away because of harsh "War on Drugs" policies that disproportionately hurt Black communities. -
This year’s annual count found 3,718 people experiencing homelessness in Dallas and Collin counties on a single night in January. -
The Tarrant Area Food Bank said it may not have enough food to help families keep from going hungry over the summer, when school kids eat more meals at home. -
Three of the 10 bond propositions include housing-related funds totaling about $82 million targeted for affordable housing and homelessness. -
The report details charges Texas tenants face on top of rent that are often hidden, duplicative, or exceed the actual cost of services, driving up housing costs. -
The Grapevine Housing Authority and two of its top officials have been accused of violating the Fair Housing Act. -
At a meeting of the city council’s housing committee on Monday, council members and city staffers discussed many options for the former University General Hospital in Oak Cliff. -
James Peabody conspired to empty out the SNAP accounts of more than 3,000 victims in Texas and more than eight other states using stolen data. -
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..
