Changing Communities

Philly ranks fourth among big cities for the raw number of court filings seeking to evict residents from their homes.

Two Pennsylvania distributors provided new markets for some dairy farms facing closure, but many other farms still struggle with staying in business.

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

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

Everyone has crossed paths with a bad landlord.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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