This narrative- and policy-driven story looked beyond cities and captured the threats rural areas face amid proposals to cut affordable housing programs.
Atlanta-based reporter Charlotte Kramon teamed up with Jesse Bedayn in Denver for in-depth coverage of a proposal to cut the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Housing advocates and nonprofit housing providers told Kramon that cutting HOME was a top concern.
AP data journalist Aaron Kessler and intern Michaela Herbst analyzed U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and state-level data for the piece, while George Walker IV provided photography to illustrate the reporting. The data showed that at least 540,000 of the more than 1.3 million affordable homes that HOME has helped build or repair in the last three decades were in congressional districts that are rural or significantly rural — the vast majority of them in Trump-supporting districts.
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