Ethan Varian, Bay Area News Group housing reporter
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Ethan Varian

Ethan Varian is a Bay Area News Group reporter covering housing for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He was previously a housing and homelessness reporter at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in Sonoma County. His stories about housing, business and culture have been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Guardian US, among others. He graduated from Colorado College with a BA degree in history and the University of Southern California with an MS degree in journalism.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area

Awards: Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter James Madison Award in 2022 for coverage of weak oversight of an affordable housing agreements, National Headliners Awards third place for coverage in 2021 of a high profile developer implicated in low-income housing fraud

Expertise: Housing issues and policy, homelessness

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