Our fellow Mark Robinson is on VPM News Focal Point tonight to discuss the housing crisis in Virginia and his recent reports on Richmond locals forced into motels due to skyrocketing rent. More from Mark in the thread below 👇

Skyrocketing rent, combined with the cost of her daughter’s cancer treatment, has forced Amy Gillespie & her child to live in a Motel 6 room for ~4 years Our fellow Mark Robinson documents their lives—and the lives of many Richmond residents—for VPM pbs.org/video/one-rich…

Please check out my friend Mark Robinson 's latest reporting on families impacted by our unjust housing crisis in the city 🙏🏾🕊️

ICYMI: Part two of my Economic Hardship Reporting Project collaboration with duylinhtu📈 and Samantha Willis aired on VPM News Focal Point last night. Watch here: vpm.org/news/articles/…

“If we weren’t providing these services, I don’t believe people’s needs would be met.” EHRP fellow Mark Robinson’s report on Richmond locals surviving in motels continues on VPM News Focal Point. We urge you to watch & remember this happens all over vpm.org/news/articles/…

Bermuda Estates is just off a busy section of U.S. Route 1 in Chester. A single road runs through the middle of the park, and about 50 homes are arranged on either side of it. Latino families live in the majority of them. vpm.org/news/2023-09-1…

Working with Keyris L. Manzanares and duylinhtu📈 on this story through my fellowship with Economic Hardship Reporting Project was an absolute privilege. Watch our feature on how Latino residents are fighting back against an investment firm that bought their mobile home park and tried to hike rents 40%.

“These folks organized on their own & have…shown a lot of solidarity in the face of this outside, faceless company coming in & trying to wring all this money out of this park & folks who really don't have it.” By our fellow Mark Robinson & Keyris L. Manzanares: vpm.org/news/2023-09-1…

Mobile homes are some of the only “affordable” housing in many neighborhoods — but investment firms are trying to increase the rent of the land where the homes are parked. Mark Robinson & Keyris L. Manzanares report from Virginia vpm.org/news/2023-09-1…