Who gets to be a homeowner in America?
A living reporting project
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, Carolina Murriel and their Pizza Shark team investigate the systems both upholding the so-called American Dream — and excluding specific people from it.
Promised Land will begin as an illustrated oral history project capturing how the pandemic and political playing field have affected people’s living situations across the country.
The collected histories will soon feed a 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.
Recipient of PRESS ON’s Southern Movement Media Fund grant.
DO YOU HAVE A HOUSING STORY WORTH SHARING?
SUBMIT IT BELOW. WE’LL GET BACK TO YOU WITH NEXT STEPS.