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Padmini Raghunath

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Padmini Raghunath is an award-winning journalist and audio producer. She works primarily on narrative series with an investigative bent. She’s helped produce "Bad Watchdog," a podcast from the Project on Government Oversight; "Silenced: The Radio Murders," a podcast from Kaleidoscope and iHeart podcast; and "Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race," an NEH-grant funded podcast season from the Science History Institute. Her print work has appeared in Outside, The Times of India, Distillations, Defector, Jezebel, and Next City, among other publications. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s in journalism and politics from New York University.
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Shelterforce checks in on three communities that have passed policies giving tenants and nonprofits first dibs on purchasing property. Are these policies keeping residents in their homes?