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The Observer-Reporter’s “No Place to Call Home” yearlong reporting project about homelessness in Washington and Greene counties has received one national and two statewide awards.

The National Low Income Housing Coalition will present the newspaper with its annual media award April 28 in Washington, D.C. The nonprofit agency presents the award annually to a print journalist who has made a dedicated effort to inform the public about the inequities in housing and to add to the understanding of the disparities between the well-housed and the poorly or unhoused in a community. The NLIHC is dedicated to achieving socially just public policy that assures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes.

Among previous honorees were Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jeff Larson of ProPublica, who received the 2013 Media Award for the series, “Living Apart: Fair Housing in America.” In 2012, the NLIHC honored Katy Reckdahl of the New Orleans Times-Picayune for her ongoing coverage of housing and homelessness issues in her community.

Observer-Reporter Editor Liz Rogers and Managing Editor of Production Denise Bachman will accept the award. Rogers also will serve as a presenter on a workshop panel along with New York Times journalist Elaisha Stokes and Bill Moyers blogger John Light.

Members of the special reporting project team, in addition to Rogers and Bachman, were Jon Stevens, Greene County bureau chief; Karen Mansfield and Barbara Miller, staff writers; Katie Roupe and Jim McNutt, staff photographers; and student journalist Mallory Rogers, a senior at Trinity High School.

The homeless series also won second place in the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors writing contest and Keystone Press Awards contest.

Living in Washington County and Greene County Living magazines won a first-place Keystone Press Award. Candace Wolf, night editor, won a second-place Keystone award for front-page design.

All of the state awards will be presented in May at the Pennsylvania Press Conference in State College.