Aaron Moselle covers housing and community development for WHYY’s PlanPhilly, filing stories for both radio and web. He’s a native of the city and calls South Philadelphia home.
More from the Contributor
Philly legal aid group urging colleges to stop asking applicants about criminal record
Community Legal Services, one of Philadelphia’s largest legal assistance organizations, is pushing area colleges and universities t ...
9 years ago
Listen
Pa. may make it easier for non-violent criminals to get a fresh start
In November, Pennsylvania lawmakers passed Act 5 that allows people to have some misdemeanor convictions sealed if a judge approves. But ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:02
Philadelphia Housing Authority relocating headquarters to North Philly
The Philadelphia Housing Authority will soon be moving its headquarters from Center City to North Philadelphia. On Wednesday, bene ...
9 years ago
Philly DA trial: Prosecutors say Seth Williams wanted a lavish lifestyle
Lawyers representing Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams told a federal jury Tuesday that the city’s top prosecutor didn ...
9 years ago
Listen
Site for marker memorializing MOVE tragedy still not pinned down
At a Saturday afternoon ceremony in West Philadelphia, officials will unveil a state historical marker detailing the 1985 MOVE bombing, o ...
9 years ago
Listen 3:20
Clinics help some immigrants navigate path to citizenship
On a recent Wednesday morning, the lobby of a Center City law firm buzzed with activity. Roughly three dozen attorneys were gather ...
9 years ago
Listen
With new sentence, Philly ‘juvenile lifer’ could gain freedom after nearly 40 years
For a few moments on Monday, the hallway outside Philadelphia Common Pleas Courtroom 1105 became the site of a family powwow. The subject ...
9 years ago
Listen
Retrial of Philly monsignor may wait until ’18
The Philadelphia Courts website still lists Tuesday as the start of Monsignor William Lynn’s retrial, but an unresolved defense app ...
9 years ago
Advocates for poor: Trump budget plan will make dire situation even worse
Life could soon become harder for tens of thousands of low-income residents in the Delaware Valley. President Donald Trump’s ...
9 years ago
Listen
Phila. Housing Authority buys shuttered high school in bid to transform the neighborhood
The Philadelphia Housing Authority now owns the former home of Roberts Vaux High School, a hulking building in North Philadelphia shutter ...
9 years ago
Pa. may seal criminal records on non-violent misdemeanor convictions
Pennsylvania lawmakers have quietly reintroduced a bill that would make it simpler for residents to seal certain parts of their crim ...
9 years ago
Watchdog groups maintain Philadelphia City Commissioners shouldn’t oversee some elections
Government watchdogs Philadelphia 3.0 and The Committee of Seventy aren’t giving up on their legal push to limit how often the Phil ...
9 years ago