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Changing Communities

The Center for Rural Pennsylvania hosted a public hearing in Tioga County on Thursday, hearing from providers and consumers about the lack of broadband access in rural areas.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Rural Pa. demands broadband access; providers cite logistical difficulties

About six percent of Pennsylvanians don't have access to broadband internet, but providers say providing service in rural areas are economically burdening.

7 years ago

In this stock photo, black and white Holstein dairy cows are in their stalls in Penn State's research barn.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pa. dairy farms scrambling due to major contract termination

One of the nation’s largest dairy distributors is ending its contract with dozens of Pennsylvania dairy farms at the end of May.

7 years ago

Garbage is piled in front of an apartment complex in Lower Germantown.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Philly’s $9 million goodbye to Germantown’s worst landlord

Everyone has crossed paths with a bad landlord.

7 years ago

Listen 6:11
Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books on the corner of Church Street and Germantown Avenue in East Germantown. (Michael Bixler/Hidden City)
PlanPhilly
Community

We asked Philly to tell us what gentrification feels like. Here’s what we heard.

Here is some of the talkback we got on social media about our gentrification series.

7 years ago

Listen 5:46
Jason’s Cozyday is one of Olney’s most popular hang out spots for young people.
PlanPhilly
Community

How Olney became one of Philly’s fastest-growing communities — without gentrification

No one could argue that Olney, in upper North Philadelphia, is gentrifying. But that doesn’t mean the neighborhood isn’t revitalizing.

7 years ago

James Earl Davis, a Professor of Urban Education at Temple University and his golden Doodle, Baldwin, pictured in his home in East Germantown.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Black middle class finds refuge in East Germantown’s diversity, gentrifying on their own terms

“I can’t reverse gentrification with one bookstore. But what I can do is model alternatives to what gentrification looks like,” said Hill.

7 years ago

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PlanPhilly
Community

3 maps that explain gentrification in Philadelphia

“Gentrification” is a word that gets tossed around a lot, especially in Philadelphia, a city where some neighborhoods are experiencing rapid demographic shifts.

7 years ago

Tonetta Graham on her Strawberry Mansion porch (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

‘We want to see growth’ too: Why Tonnetta Graham isn’t worried about Philly hipsters moving into her neighborhood

Graham wants the main beneficiaries to be people like herself, residents who stuck with the neighborhood during its darkest moments.

7 years ago

Listen 5:59
Claudia Sherrod (left) and Haley Dervinis (right) in front of their homes in Point Breeze.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

The surprising truth behind the racial dynamics of gentrification in Philly

While it may be harder to tell, data suggests white neighborhoods in Philly are actually gentrifying faster than black neighborhoods.

7 years ago

Listen 7:37
A view of Society Hill taken from inside the Society Hill Towers.
PlanPhilly
Community

From slums to sleek towers: How Philly became cleaner, safer, and more unequal

The reinvention of Society Hill in the 1960s is widely considered one of the first instances of gentrification — although no one called it that at the time.

7 years ago

Listen 6:37
New houses abut old in Northern Liberties, one of the city’s fastest gentrifying areas. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

‘Gentrified’ series draws out stories about changing relationships across Philly

As neighborhoods gentrify, there is a complex web of effects — some positive, some negative. This week WHYY is examining those changes from the ground up.

7 years ago

Listen 5:03
After more than a decade spent in a state financial oversight program, Pittsburgh regained its fiscal independence last month. More than a dozen Pennsylvania cities remain in the program.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

In leaving state oversight, Pittsburgh says it’s prepared for the risk

On a Monday morning last month people packed the Pittsburgh mayor’s conference room to witness the city’s successful transition to fi ...

7 years ago

Kayakers paddle past downtown Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River in this September 4, 2015 photo. (AP File Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Pittsburgh sheds distressed city status as fiscal health improves

On Monday, Pittsburgh became the second city to exit Act 47, the state’s oversight program for financia ...

7 years ago

Matt Rooke sits outside of his home in State College, Pennsylvania. A former resident at the Hilltop Mobile Home Park, Rooke said his experience of being displaced gave him insights of the affordable housing problem in the area. (Min Xian/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Urban Planning

Closure of mobile-home parks in fast-developing State College sparks conversation about gentrification, affordable housing

State College has boomed in recent years due to the presence of Penn State's main campus. But what does that mean for low-income residents?

7 years ago

Listen 5:30
 A bird’s eye view of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Johnstown residents bristle over town’s portrayal in recent viral article on Trump supporters

A widely shared article used Johnstown, Pennsylvania as a lens to showcase the loyalty of President Trump’s supporters. But local residents are balking at the portrait.

8 years ago

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