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Staff reporter

Mara Quinn covers the housing fights that start in public meetings and end on your block.

Mara Quinn has spent the last four years covering housing fights, neighborhood process, and the small procedural votes that end up changing what a block costs to live on.

A busy newsroom with reporters working at long rows of desks.
Morning desk edits, transit board follow-up, and housing coverage before the first newsletter send.

What she has been covering lately

Her recent reporting has focused on the housing affordability beat, the bridge toll proposal, and the neighborhood tradeoffs that rarely fit inside one committee agenda.

Housing archive

Follow the rent, permitting, and tenant-protection stories she returns to most often.
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Morning Brief

Catch the stories she is tracking between hearings and long-form features.
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