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A robot portrait painter created a gallery of 'everyday geniuses'
Community

Local artists donate nearly 200 pieces of original artwork to people experiencing homelessness

People experiencing homelessness will have the opportunity to receive pieces of original artwork from local artists as part of SELF Inc.

4 years ago

A homeless man pushes his belongings along a Los Angeles street. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Exclusive: HUD’s Marcia Fudge says she’s ready to fight homelessness as head of panel

Marcia Fudge was selected Thursday to chair the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which is coordinating the government's response.

4 years ago

Stacy Shamburger says West End's new housing units will provide homes for young adults who have left the foster care system. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

‘We are mom, dad, everything’: Helping former foster kids find a home

West End Neighborhood House has 23 homes for ex-foster children and is building room for 10 more young adults. The agency is also creating a drop-in center.

4 years ago

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Isabel Miranda brushes the hair of her 4-year-old son, Julian, in their rental apartment
Politics & Policy

After court nixes eviction ban, race is on for federal help

Housing advocates say that without the moratorium the only thing standing between tenants and eviction is the more than $50 billion in aid the federal government has promised.

4 years ago

Philadelphia cleared out a homeless encampment at the 12th/13th Street PATCO station on May, 5, 2021. By the afternoon, at least one occupant had returned. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Police clear PATCO encampment as City Council challenges Philly’s homeless strategy

Philadelphia’s top homelessness official defended the city’s strategy for housing people in need and pointed to long-term funding challenges.

4 years ago

A SEPTA police officer stands on the platform of the Somerset stop
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Urban Planning

SEPTA takes pride in cleaning, increased security at Somerset Station

SEPTA General Manager Leslie Richards said the Market-Frankford Line station is now a model for other stations in the system.

4 years ago

Transit police forcibly remover a violent passenger from a SEPTA bus in Upper Darby, Pa., around 1 a.m. on March 4, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

‘Fear for your life’: What it feels like to drive a SEPTA shuttle overnight

Drivers say they are overwhelmed by people struggling with homelessness and addiction. SEPTA has only 7 social workers to help contain the crisis.

4 years ago

Tiffani Szabara and her daughter Cadence
Education

The COVID year: A single mom’s fight to keep her kids in school and her family together

A year ago, Tiffani Szabara was managing a restaurant and living a stable life with her four kids in a middle-class suburb. Then COVID struck.

4 years ago

Listen 5:04
Tawanda Jones brings unhoused individuals to Cherry Hill Mall
Community

Occupy Cherry Hill: Unhoused people gather at upscale mall to protest lack of warming centers

Tawanda Jones is staging sit-ins to protest the lack of warming centers for those experiencing homelessness in Camden. The state’s involvement gives her hope.

4 years ago

Joel Embiid
Community
NBC10

Joel Embiid’s donation to Philly area shelters is why Sixers fans love him

Embiid's donation will provide meals, clothing, COVID treatment, health care, summer camp and essential care for teens, the team announced in a release Saturday.

4 years ago

On March 5, 2021, at her warming center in the Yorkship Family School gym, Tawanda Jones, right, tries to convince a patron known as Sarah Ann to allow Jones to help her rent a room at a boarding house. Sarah Ann had told Jones that if there was nowhere else to go that night, she would sleep in Camden's Evergreen Cemetery.  (Photo by April Saul for WHYY)
Community

‘True Blue’: A day in the life of the woman helping Camden’s unhoused people escape the cold

Tawanda Jones was on a mission to relocate dozens of people from a school gym, to keep them warm over the weekend.

4 years ago

Tents and sleeping bags line the tunnels of the Locust Street Patco Station in Center City on Feb. 23, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Philly, PATCO respond to Center City transit station encampment with social services

People set up tents inside the underground concourse at 12th and Locust streets seeking warmth and shelter during the recent snow emergency.

4 years ago

Project HOME founder Sister Mary Scullion, 1199C President Henry Nicholas, and AFSCME District Council 47 President Tom Cronin march in a housing protest
Community
Billy Penn

Inside Philly’s 40-year war on homeless encampments

The Ben Franklin Parkway occupation followed a well-trodden model. What can city government do to break the cycle?

4 years ago

A customer leaves a Pier 1 retail store, which is going out of business
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Unemployment in the year of COVID

As we continue our series on how the pandemic has reshaped work in America, we'll discuss joblessness and unemployment over the course of the pandemic.

Air Date: February 19, 2021 10:00 am

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Tawanda Jones rests in what she calls her
Community

‘Warming more than just bodies’: School gym hosts Camden’s unhoused amid winter freeze

Two years ago, Tawanda Jones and Connie Kellum created a warming center for the unhoused in Camden. They’re back at it again.

4 years ago

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