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The saga facing Kim Daniel to find affordable, safe housing using Section 8 vouchers reaches a happy conclusion.

This is the sixth chapter in the story of Kim Daniel, who is coping with the pandemic in a neighborhood plagued by chronic illness and much shorter life spans than those in predominantly white neighborhoods. Daniel, 55, has lived with a congenital heart defect that has taken her to death’s door several times over the course of her life.

The saga of the heist is revealed in a newly released book by author and retired Siskiyou County judge Bob Kaster.

Journalist Denise Hollinshed, left, has been writing about Beverly Jones for the 63106 Project. This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center as part of Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson’s 63106 Project, a St. Louis-based nonprofit racial equity storytelling project. When it comes to COVID-19 everyone is vulnerable. Including Beverly Jones, the person whose life I am chronicling as part of Before Ferguson Beyond Ferguson's 63106 Project. Including me. Jones has been a longtime resident and worker in the Preservation Square housing complex in ZIP code 63106. According...

JEFFERSON CITY — A state tax credit designed to finance affordable housing construction, which was at the center of one of the fiercest political battles of the short-lived tenure of Gov. Eric Greitens, is back. The Missouri Housing Development Commission could meet as soon as this week to allocate Missouri Low Income Housing Tax Credits for projects around the state, including several in the St. Louis area. It would be the first time that Missouri has issued state low-income tax credits since Greitens’ administration in December 2017 engineered a vote at the commission halting the ...