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The Indianapolis Star hosted a town hall meeting on the eviction crisis and Professor Fran Quigley was one of the discussants. The event was hosted on Facebook live on October 28.

The newspaper has been providing intense coverage of the crisis; a recent story profiled the dozen or so corporate landlords that comprise 90 percent of eviction filings in Indianapolis. The event aimed to outline the challenges, showcase successes, and examine potential long-term solutions to the crisis. Professor Quigley was joined on the panel by Stephanie Caraway of IU Fairbanks and Tonda Radewan of the Housing and Eviction Prevention Project of Monroe County.

Professor Quigley is a 1987 graduate of IU McKinney, where he is a Clinical Professor of Law and teaches in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. Clinic students advocate for the rights of the poor, with a focus on individual and systemic barriers to accessing healthcare and the social determinants of health. His latest book, Religious Socialism: Faith in Action for a Better World, was published in September 2021. He is the author of several academic journal articles on social justice and human rights, multiple mass media articles and columns, and five books including this most recent work. Prior to his work at the law school, he served as the first Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Julia Carson and as the executive director of ACLU of Indiana.  He edits the newsletter Faith in Healthcare and contributes to and helps edit the publications of the Religious Socialism working group of the Democratic Socialists of America.