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Mural Arts is shutting down the Kensington arts center next to Somerset Station
Citing zoning issues, the organization is searching for a new location, but the closure is a loss to many in the neighborhood.
2 weeks ago
Philly disputes claims by COVID prevention hotel transplants that new housing lacks heat, hot water
Still waiting for permanent homes, several people moved from Center City are unhappy with their new surroundings.
4 months ago
Heading back to a shelter, Philly mom wishes COVID hotel money could pay for housing instead
The funding designated for contingency sites is not flexible, city officials said.
4 months ago
Why Philly shut down its homeless COVID hotels, and why advocates are furious
A private prison company runs one of the temporary sites where residents are being relocated.
4 months ago
Anyone who hasn’t found a place to live after Dec. 15 will be offered temporary shelter, say officials, who’ve successfully placed 50 people so far.
4 months ago
Philly to open second quarantine hotel for vulnerable COVID patients as cases surge
The 30 beds at the first site sometimes fill up, officials said, with people from shelters or those experiencing homelessness.
5 months ago
More than 20 organizations and individuals are developing and implementing policies to reduce the impact of the opioid epidemic on child-welfare involved families in Philly.
8 months ago
Listen 4:08Union leaders say they have to fight for everything nursing home staff need to protect themselves from COVID-19, a virus that has been particularly deadly in nursing homes.
11 months ago
Listen 2:12Marked by colorful decals, the sites are intended to help prevent COVID-19 from spreading among people on the street.
1 year ago
If I lose my chronic depression, how much of myself will go with it?
Until now, I have had little hope that my depression would ever really go away.
3 years ago
Suicide prevention is everyone’s job
More people die by suicide than by motor vehicle crashes. And if you think you are immune, you are not.
3 years ago
I may be impatient, but — are you done reading this yet?
I have trouble waiting for anything: a paycheck, the weekend, a manicure. Imagine my chagrin when my children, from birth, exhibited the same impatience that has tortured me.
4 years ago