Meet Cari Spencer
Cari Spencer is a reporter for MPR News covering housing and homelessness in the Twin Cities. She has previously covered public safety and city politics in Minneapolis.
Cari joined MPR News as an intern in 2024. Previously, she was a reporting intern at the Los Angeles Times and wrote for Crosstown LA, the LA School Report and The 74.
Cari attended the University of Southern California where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Recent Contributions
- 'Right to repair' ordinance supporters welcome adoption of ballot measure
- Voters energized and heading to the polls in Minneapolis and Moorhead
- Minneapolis OKs letting unsheltered people sleep in cars overnight in supervised lots
- St. Paul City Council approves plan to better address unsheltered homelessness
- Minneapolis City Council plan would let unsheltered people sleep overnight in cars in supervised lots
- St. Paul council members join Minneapolis in push for regulating driverless rideshare vehicles
- 'We do what we have to do': Meet the elder protecting his neighbors at a St. Paul encampment
- ‘Until we have to move again:’ The journey from one St. Paul encampment to the next
- ‘Difficult to say goodbye’: Residents, volunteers worry what’s next as St. Paul clears encampment
- Residents frustrated with slow pace of repairs, relocations from troubled Mpls housing complex
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