Taylor Allen is PlanPhilly’s housing and community development reporter. Before joining the PlanPhilly team, she was a Max Wycisk News Fellow at Colorado Public Radio and later became that station’s business/general assignment reporter. She previously worked at WHYY as a web producer/reporter and was a contributor for ‘Your Voice With Solomon Jones’ on Praise 107.9 before the station reformatted. She’s also an NPR Next Generation alumna.
Allen is from Central Jersey and graduated from Temple University in 2019.
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