Promised Land is a deep dive into the colonial roots of that question, which holds the building blocks for today’s relentless housing crisis. To uncover those roots, journalists and hosts Isis Madrid, Maria Murriel and their Pizza Shark team investigate the systems both upholding the so-called American Dream — and excluding specific people from it. Promised Land begins as an illustrated oral history newsletter capturing how 2020’s pandemic and political playing field have affected people’s living situations across the country. The newsletter will feed the Promised Land podcast, a narrative serialized documentary exploring equitable access to housing and property ownership in the depth that the subject deserves. The mission boils down to this: Housing is a human right.