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Homelessness

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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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?

5 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

Listen 49:00
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.

5 years ago

tents in the train station concourse
Health

Code Blue during COVID-19: Shelters gear up for pandemic cold snap

Area homeless shelters and outreach workers are gearing up to try to get people safely indoors.

5 years ago

Hope Center executive director Kim Eppehimer talks to guest David Hicks in the lobby. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

Del. ‘Swamp Hotel’ now a swank ‘stepping stone’ for people experiencing homelessness

New Castle County bought the hotel to create a comprehensive shelter and service center to help guests transition to stable, permanent housing.

5 years ago

Listen 6:01
A person, reflected in a window while wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus, walks during a winter storm in Philadelphia
Weather

What a ‘Code Blue’ means for Philly residents

When temperatures feel near or below 20 degrees Fahrenheit, Philadelphia officials will declare a Code Blue. Here’s what that means, and how you can help.

5 years ago

Tenants' rights advocates
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden to extend order limiting pandemic evictions

The federal eviction moratorium, implemented through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is intended to help tenants who have been battered economically

5 years ago

Ice crystals (Public domain image)
Weather

Montgomery County declares ‘Code Blue’ weather emergency through weekend

A “Code Blue” declaration is made in the county when winter conditions pose a threat of serious harm or death to individuals without shelter.

5 years ago

A protester wearing a face mask holds up a sign that says,
Community

‘My phone has not stopped ringing’: A new Chesco eviction prevention program expands Jan. 5

A Chester County eviction prevention program expands into the Coatesville area on Jan. 5 as families continue to struggle amid the coronavirus pandemic.

5 years ago

On the left is Walker Hall, one of the 'community-based sites' used to temporarily house former COVID hotel residents. (Courtenay Harris Bond/Billy Penn)
Health
Billy Penn

Philly disputes claims by COVID prevention hotel transplants that new housing lacks heat, hot water

Still waiting for permanent homes, several people moved from Center City are unhappy with their new surroundings.

5 years ago

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