Changing Communities

For National Poetry Month, Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn asked listeners to write poems about their communities.

One week ago, the arrest of two black men at a Rittenhouse Square Starbucks pushed a provocative idea about the racialization of urban space into mainstream conversation.

The proposed regulation was initially introduced as a public-safety minded response to a recent North Philadelphia housefire that killed four residents of a rooming house.

Francisville is under construction.Walk down almost any street in this North Philadelphia neighborhood, and there are houses—or multi-unit buildings—getting built.

Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado said Friday that Trump made the pledge to him in a Wednesday night conversation.

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.