Ethan Varian is a Bay Area News Group reporter covering housing and homelessness for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He was previously a housing and homelessness reporter at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in Sonoma County. His stories about housing, business and culture have been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Guardian US, among others. He graduated from Colorado College with a bachelor’s degree in history and the University of Southern California with a master’s degree in journalism. Varian was a Center for Health Journalism 2025 California Health Equity Fellow.

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