Homelessness

The Homeward Initiative, in partnership with local LGBTQ nonprofit Attic Youth Center, will serve queer young people ages 18-24 and will serve roughly a dozen young people.

Nonprofit developer Stephanie Sena will test her model for low-cost, infill housing on vacant land acquired from the Philadelphia Land Bank in 2018.

This week; helping the homeless during the massive heatwave, Philly police officers fired for offensive Facebook posts, and the Delaware vertical farm employing ex-offenders.

The “feels like” temp could hit 113 degrees.

Hope & Door is a partnership between Berger Rental and One Step Away.

The Same Day Work program — developed by Mural Arts with the Scattergood Foundation and MHP, and funded by private philanthropy — is eight weeks into a two-year pilot.

The Kenney administration wants to add about $1 million to the Office of Homeless Services budget. The money would be used to keep families in their homes.

“Heard” features stories from people who’ve lived on the street.

Since 2010, Broad Street Ministry has served as a kind of post office for people experiencing homelessness. Those who comes in can claim the ministry’s address as their own.

On today's regional roundup: Philly's plan for an "Esports arena;" Camden program pays homeless people to make public art; microplastics in the Delaware River.

300 homeless Philadelphians might be back on the street this month.

Inglis Methodist Gardens also will offer social services and connect its homeless and disabled tenants to nearby mental- and physical-health services.

A survey included in the Penn study suggests that the Kensington encampments also reflected broader issues that lead to homelessness.

Tanya Curry first slept in a homeless shelter when she was in her early 20s and had her 5-year-old son alongside her. Today at 46, she is alone and once again homeless.

Work Now, a day-labor program launched a year and a half ago aims to combat panhandling by challenging people holding “will work for food” signs to do just that.