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Enjoying some South African pizza and wine while on assignment in Johannesburg.
Hello! I am a multimedia reporter, writer and commentator of sorts. Currently I’m the healthcare reporter for GOVERNING magazine, covering the most important health issues impacting state and local governments.

My words can also be found at NYMag.com, NationalGeographic.com, The Atlantic, USAToday.com, Foreign Policy and various other corners of the internet.

I am originally from Li…

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Making Affordable Housing Affordable to Build

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By Emily Hamilton, Mattie Quinn
| GOVERNING Verified
In much of the United States, developers spend more to build an affordable apartment for a low-income family than a market-rate one just down the street — sometimes far more. It is one of the central paradoxes of the nation’s housing crisis: The affordable homes that lower-income renters need most tend to be the costliest to build. Colorado is an exception.
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Pittsburgh Is Showing Smaller Governments How to Use AI

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By Carl Smith, Mattie Quinn
| GOVERNING Verified
AI is increasingly a tool of local government — but uptake may be slow across Allegheny County suburbs as local officials try to determine how this evolving technology might streamline the task of governance. “We have so many local governments … that don’t have the capacity,” said Joy Ruff, executive director of Local Government Academy, an independent nonprofit. “They’re underresourced. There’s no plug and play right now.
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What Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Need: Supportive Housing

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By Jared Brey Verified, Mattie Quinn
| GOVERNING Verified
Every year in the United States, around 20,000 youths turn 18 and age out of the foster care system, and 20 percent of them immediately become homeless. That makes foster care one of the single largest pipelines into homelessness. Why? Because youth leaving foster care are offered very little support when it comes to finding housing, let alone a job or other support they need to build a stable adult life.
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