Fair Hiring, Unfair Housing
There are laws and programs to help formerly-incarcerated Texans get employed, but finding a home can be far more challenging.
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Claire Partain is a reporter covering The Woodlands with the Courier of Montgomery County and Houston Chronicle. She got her start in sports, serving as the sports editor at Texas State University (go ‘Cats!) before covering professional soccer team Austin FC and other Austin news at digital startup Austonia. Claire has also freelanced with her hometown paper, appearing in the Fairfield Recorder, Teague Chronicle and Corsicana Daily Sun.
There are laws and programs to help formerly-incarcerated Texans get employed, but finding a home can be far more challenging.