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Keystone Crossroads

Keystone Crossroads Archive

 New Year's Eve in Pennsylvania. In Bethlehem, an 85-lb Peep is dropped at the end of PeepsFest. (Image courtesy of DONNA FISHER/THE MORNING CALL)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads about Pennsylvania cities

 What we’ve learned about Pennsylvania cities in 2015. A hint: we share a lot of the same challenges and opportunities. ...

10 years ago

 Zach Hassinger in his apartment in downtown Lewisburg, which he got through the Union County Justice Bridge Housing Program aimed at preventing people on probation or parole from re-offending. Hassinger, 23, has been sober since being charged two years ago with felony drug-dealing and other offenses. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads

A fix for ex-offender housing difficulties faces uncertainty

Union County’s controversial Justice Bridge Housing Program got some good results, but funding fell off and its future is uncertain ...

10 years ago

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 A view from a window on Montgomery Avenue looking toward Center City Philadelphia.  (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

One Street Philadelphia: Montgomery Avenue

UPDATED: Montgomery Ave. shows the extremes of Philly. Census data show a wide range of incomes along the street. See what that means in ...

10 years ago

 Mary Ney, turning 73 next month, moved to Scranton to be with family. She has been living in this one bedroom apartment for almost three years with her adult son, who she cares for because he has suffered brain damage.  Ney, a single mother of four, says ‘I don't like it. I have no faucet for my tub so I can't take baths. I turn the stove on for heat because the one heater in the living room isn't enough to heat the whole apartment.’ (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

One Street Scranton: North Washington Avenue

I think you can learn a lot about a household just by taking a peek into the kitchen. ...

10 years ago

 Aerial view of Penn Avenue looking toward downtown Pittsburgh.  (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

One Street Pittsburgh: Penn Avenue

Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh is a major arterial street that cuts through starkly different neighborhoods. ...

10 years ago

 A man walks through a vacant lot where the impression on a demolished home remains on a standing building in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

Ideas Worth Stealing: How to recruit more landlords to work with Section 8 tenants

Smart marketing, rent and security deposit guarantees, and overall efficiency can help convince landlords to work with the program. < ...

10 years ago

 Cars are parked along a street in Philadelphia. (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)
Keystone Crossroads

How parking rules can destroy walkability

The city of Ottawa says policies requiring developers to build a certain number of parking spots can have consequences for urban planning ...

10 years ago

 The skyline of downtown Pittsburgh is silhouetted by the rising sun on a foggy morning, December 2015. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Keystone Crossroads

No, not that budget: Cities hammer out their 2016 finances

It’s budget time in the city. See which municipalities are raising taxes and which are cutting services. If you’ve bee ...

10 years ago

In this file photo, former Harrisburg Mayor Stephen Reed talks to reporters after his arrest on theft, bribery, corruption and other charges. (Diana Robinson/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads

Capital city corruption case heading back to court

Former Mayor Stephen Reed remains the only person charged in the state Attorney General’s office investigation into Harrisburg̵ ...

10 years ago

 A fan dresses as Darth Vader for last Sunday's Eagles game.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

In case you missed it: This week’s good reads from Pennsylvania cities

This week we look to the force of community initiatives in the Keystone State. “Always pass on what you have learned” ...

10 years ago

 Take a look at some of the stories Keystone Crossroads covered in 2015.
Keystone Crossroads

Blame pension problems on the ancient Romans, and other lessons from 2015

The highlights of Keystone Crossroads’ coverage this year, in no particular order. The highlights of ...

10 years ago

 Youngsters run up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art during an unseasonably warm December afternoon in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads

Pennsylvania population growth remains slow, steady

Pennsylvania has gained about 100,000 new residents in the past five years.  New population estimates from the U.S. Census Bu ...

10 years ago

 The barn is the center of student life at Porreco College, a working farm turned college campus as part of Edinboro University near Erie, Pa. (Eleanor Klibanoff/WPSU)
Keystone Crossroads

Community colleges benefit Pa. cities. Why doesn’t Erie have one?

Erie is preparing it’s workforce for the return of industry. But a traditional community college isn’t part of the equation y ...

10 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads

Section 8 vouchers can help low-income renters, but finding housing is difficult

Section 8 voucher caps limit participants from renting in high-opportunity areas, and that’s a problem. ...

10 years ago

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 New Pennley Place, in Pittsburgh, is one of nearly 1,500 affordable housing projects in Pennsylvania that has received the low income housing tax credit (LIHTC). This development received its LIHTC in 1999. (Irina Zhorov/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Tax credits help build affordable housing, but they expire. Should Pennsylvania worry?

In Pennsylvania, affordable housing units funded through tax credits will likely stay affordable even as the tax credit restrictions expi ...

10 years ago

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