Rebecca Burns is a Chicago-based investigative reporter and editor whose work focuses on housing, finance and the ongoing effects of the foreclosure crisis. She is an associate editor at In These Times magazine and her reporting and writing has also appeared in Al Jazeera America, the Chicago Reader, Dissent, Jacobin, and other outlets. She was a winner of the I.F. Stone Award from the Investigative Fund. Follow her on Twitter @rejburns. Last updated July 2017