Close to one-third of all city-funded apartments for formerly homeless people in San Francisco are run by the nonprofit HomeRise, but the organization has struggled to live up to its promises, endangering its residents and its mission, an investigation by the San Francisco Chronicle and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program found. Regulators have flagged the nonprofit’s failures, only to see ...
For KUNM, the public radio station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Kent Patterson and Mercedes Mejia produced an hourlong documentary on environmental pollution and efforts to pursue environmental justice in two communities that straddle the U.S./Mexico border. With support from the Fund, the team filed a public-records requests to obtain a 700-page transcript of an administrative hearing for a state fine ...
A year ago, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, TMJ4 News and Wisconsin Watch, with support from the Fund, published the Milwaukee County district attorney’s list of law enforcement officers with integrity violations, allegations of dishonesty or bias, and past criminal charges. It was the first time the full list had been made public, and there were numerous errors and omissions in the list. Since then, local ...
Journalist Caron Creighton’s feature-length documentary film, “Wood Street,” premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film festival and will screen in Michigan and North Carolina next month. Produced with support from the Fund, the film documents the experiences of people living at one of the largest homeless encampments on the West Coast. When the city moved to evict them from the ...