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City Limits hires Brand to cover housing and homelessness

David F. Brand

David F. Brand has joined City Limits to cover housing and homelessness for the news outlet dedicated to investigative journalism of urban problems in New York City.

Brand joins from Queens Daily Eagle where he has been managing editor since 2018. He has also worked as a radio host and producer at WBAI.

Additionally, Brand has freelanced for City Limits, The Nation, City Lab, Gothamist, Gotham Gazette and various other outlets.

He also won an Ippies Award for local news coverage in 2018 for his reporting on how artists with disabilities overcome structural and institutional barriers.

Brand is a B.S. from Boston University and an M.S.W. from New York University.

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