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 report shows renters and homeowners are under significant strain from housing costs. Housing affordability is slipping faster in Texas than the national average. -
Casi 1 de cada 6 hogares tejanos sufre inseguridad alimentaria, una cifra significativamente superior a la media nacional. Esto supone 1.7 millones de hogares en Texas, unos 300,000 más que el año anterior. -
Nearly 1 in 6 Texas households are food insecure, significantly higher than the national average. That’s 1.7 million households in Texas, about 300,000 more than the year before.
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Critics say the "Omnibase" program — designed to spur people to pay off old tickets — often leaves poor Texans trapped in a cycle of debt. -
Michael Lockhart was an eyewitness to a chaotic shooting in Fort Worth's Como neighborhood over the July Fourth holiday that left three people dead and eight wounded. -
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs will take applications for rental assistance until noon on Thursday, almost two weeks earlier than planned. -
Starting this month, Texans who use SNAP benefits to buy groceries will have an average of $212 less per month to buy groceries, as pandemic-era increases to the food assistance program are ended. -
With a state legislative session looming, the Texas Women’s Foundation has identified nearly two dozen policy changes that can help make the lives of women and girls better. -
A new report finds that Texas courts use very different yardsticks to decide who’s poor enough to get a court-appointed lawyer. That patchwork often leaves people without the legal defense in a criminal trial that the Constitution promises. -
Los fondos se entregan en forma de subsidios a los propietarios de viviendas que reúnen los requisitos; no se trata de un préstamo que haya que devolver. Un hogar puede recibir hasta $40,000 de ayuda para el pago de la hipoteca y hasta $25,000 para los impuestos sobre la propiedad, el seguro de la vivienda y las cuotas de la Asociación de Propietarios.
