Changing Communities

I own a home in the Lea Elementary catchment. My family will benefit from Penn’s proposed $5 million investment in the school. I don’t think it’s fair.

The local Afghan community, centered in Northeast Philadelphia, has nearly doubled with the influx of evacuees, who worry for family and friends left behind.

Teenage photographers were mentored by immigration photojournalist Ada Trillo to express their own lives through pictures.

As rental construction surges in Philadelphia, home prices are expected to level out in the new year. That’s good news for people seeking to buy.

Since the storm in September, a band of neighbors, friends, kids, teachers, and others has chopped up and moved tons of trees out of at least 270 yards.

The change aims to empower district council members and residents, but critics say it will politicize and delay real estate development.

To me, the development happening now feels like it wasn’t conceived with the full gamut of Mount Airy residents in mind.

Ahn Tran welcomed a family of Afghan evacuees as tenants in one of his apartments, in part because of his experience as a Vietnamese refugee.

A coalition of community organizations wants the new owner of the South Philly complex to protect residents from pollution and gentrification.

Though FCC maps say otherwise, county officials think Delco has huge gaps in internet coverage, specifically in lower-income areas in the southeast.

A major private investment provides a public benefit in the form of a new supermarket in Juniata Park.

California and Colorado this year banned state agencies from using the word “alien” to refer to immigrants who entered the U.S. without permission.

Gun violence dropped dramatically after West Philly’s House of Umoja brokered a ceasefire in 1974. The organization’s matriarch says it’s time for a new treaty.

The runner is one of an estimated 800 Afghan evacuees expected to resettle in Philadelphia as a result of the U.S. troop withdrawal and Taliban takeover.

Philadelphia Councilmember Cindy Bass said money shouldn't stop residents from having a say in neighborhood development decisions.