Christopher Connelly
Christopher Connelly is a KERA reporter based in Fort Worth. Christopher joined KERA after a year and a half covering the Maryland legislature for WYPR, the NPR member station in Baltimore. Before that, he was a Joan B. Kroc Fellow at NPR – 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. He also has deep Texas roots: He spent summers visiting his grandparents in Fort Worth, and he has multiple aunts, uncles and cousins living there now.
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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 finds a massive shortage in Texas of rental homes affordable to extremely low-income renter households — one of the worst in the nation.. -
The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau’s funding structure. Many observers worry about catastrophic consequences. -
Air conditioning feels like a must-have in brutally hot Texas. For renters, legally, it’s not — at least not everywhere in the state. -
House Bill 2127 has massive — though ill-defined — implications for local governments. But it's not clear when Texans might start seeing its impacts. -
Eviction filings have surged in the wake of the pandemic, but those numbers only count formal cases filed in courts. It's not clear how many people are forced out when landlords shut off their air conditioning or harass them, tenants' rights advocates say. -
The end of pandemic-era food assistance came at a steep cost for many North Texans. -
Car trouble can set off a financial crisis for low-income people. In Dallas, a small nonprofit is trying to help, one automobile repair at a time.
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Texans who managed to keep the lights on during the winter storm are getting sky-high electric bills, the product of a deregulated industry that allows power companies to charge variable rates.
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In Denton County, Texas, there are more than 30 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a state-run home for people with severe disabilities.
