Dossier
city contracts
Coverage of city contracts in the Nexus archive.
- Why won’t Oakland release transparency reports about city contracts?
Oakland city officials have refused to disclose details about hundreds of contracts for three years, despite a city law requiring transparency.
- Houston’s decades-old program awarding city contracts to minority-owned businesses is ruled unconstitutional
A U.S. judge ruled Houston's program awarding city contracts to minority-owned businesses unconstitutional, siding with a white couple who claimed their landscaping businesses faced racial discrimination. The case was filed in 2023.