Investigative Journalism

State politicians who supported police reform and accountability measures could see future donations from law enforcement disappear.

Americans priced out of housing increasingly land in jail, in court or in tents on the street.

The Massachusetts eviction moratorium is creating a deeper affordable housing crisis in the state, forcing landlords once willing to take on financially riskier tenants, like those with poor credit, to balk at the prospect.

Massachusetts had some of the nation’s strongest tenant protections during the federal CARES Act’s eviction moratorium, with thousands of residential evictions suspended in state court and a block on the filing of most new cases.

Boston is among several of the state’s largest cities receiving federal money to fight homelessness that so far lack any formal definition of what constitutes an encampment.

Some laws make it illegal for homeless people to meet life’s basic necessities — sitting or sleeping in public, asking for money or food, or even standing in one place too long — creating a cycle of arrests and court proceedings that make emerging from homelessness more difficult.