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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KERA journalists Christopher Connelly and Yfat Yossifor spent almost a year reporting on a new way to combat homeless. They share their thoughts on what happens next. -
Belinda and Marty Bonine now live in an apartment after years on the streets, thanks to a new approach to homelessness. It's an improvement — but there are still struggles. -
Moving day for Terisa Hensley means leaving behind danger and hardship on the streets of Dallas — and moving into an apartment that could help turn her life around. -
KERA's Justin Martin talked with Christopher Connelly and Yfat Yossifor a new approach to ending homelessness called "encampment decommissioning." -
Richard Garrett didn't expect to end up on the streets. He had a good job, a relationship and a home. He fell hard. But thanks to a new program, he's no longer homeless. -
A new approach to helping people living on the streets find permanent housing called decommissioning is giving new hope to the homeless in Dallas. -
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.
