By BRYAN GALLION, MAYA POTTIGER, KARA NEWHOUSE, RYAN LITTLE, TRISHA AHMED, JENNA PIERSON, ANASTAZJA KOLODZIEJ and ALLISON MOLLENKAMP / The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, University of Maryland The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, University of Maryland CRISFIELD, Md. (AP) — Public housing is supposed to be a solution to homelessness, not a cause of it. But in Crisfield, a city of 2,600 on the Chesapeake Bay, the housing authority is one of the leading eviction filers. It files cases against tenants so often that officials hired a contractor to automate the process. The agency owns just 330 units yet […]
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