After the housing bust, a group of men profited by destroying the American dream of homeownership for hundreds of thousands of families. In this episode of Reveal, we learn how these Homewreckers — many of whom are close to President Donald Trump — did it and meet a woman who fought back.
About Katharine
Katharine Mieszkowski is a senior reporter for Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, the weekly radio show and podcast, co-produced with PRX. Her journalism has won many national awards, including the Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Award two years in a row and a Peabody award. Before Reveal, she was a senior writer for Salon and for Fast Company magazine. Mieszkowski has a bachelor's degree from Yale University. She grew up outside Houston, but now lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area. @kmieszkowski