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“KARE 11 Investigates: Housing Hustle”

Excellence in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting

KARE 11-TV, 2026

Author(s): Staff

Reporting from KARE 11-TV exposes a massive Medicaid fraud scheme targeting vulnerable Minnesotans in the state’s Housing Stabilization Services program. The investigation uncovers forged documents, fly-by-night companies and systemic government oversight failures, prompting federal indictments, bipartisan legislative reforms, congressional hearings and the unprecedented shutdown of the entire program.