5. A reckoning on housing for Native Americans

Data: Census Bureau; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios
Data: Census Bureau; Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios

It's taken the coronavirus pandemic to highlight the dismal housing that many Native Americans and Alaska Natives are forced to call home: dilapidated, overcrowded structures without electricity or indoor plumbing.

Why it matters: Native Americans on reservations have lived for decades under these dire conditions. The difficulty in building or even improving homes is traced to federal policies on reservation land and limited access to capital for Indigenous families.

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