
Homelessness
Heat wave response: Philly’s quadrupling homeless outreach for Code Red
The “feels like” temp could hit 113 degrees.
6 years ago
Property company gives Philly homeless free apartments for a year
Hope & Door is a partnership between Berger Rental and One Step Away.
6 years ago
Philly launched a program to put homeless people to work. Here’s what happened.
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.
6 years ago
Philly budget carves out extra support for low-income families facing homelessness
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.
6 years ago
What’s it like to be homeless in Philly? This podcast takes you there
“Heard” features stories from people who’ve lived on the street.
6 years ago
Mail for the homeless: A local lifeline for people off the grid
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.
6 years ago
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.
Air Date: April 1, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:31When Philly shuts down its winter beds, there’s not enough housing to go around
300 homeless Philadelphians might be back on the street this month.
6 years ago
Nonprofits, insurer team to build subsidized apartments for Philly homeless
Inglis Methodist Gardens also will offer social services and connect its homeless and disabled tenants to nearby mental- and physical-health services.
6 years ago
Report finds Kensington homeless encampments not just a symptom of opioid crisis
A survey included in the Penn study suggests that the Kensington encampments also reflected broader issues that lead to homelessness.
6 years ago
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.
6 years ago
From panhandling to a paycheck: How day labor can provide opportunity to Philly’s 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.
6 years ago
South Street theater screened films for homeless during Code Blue nights
Bill Arrowood says the theater was never a shelter, just a business giving back to the community by inviting those without shelter in for an all-night movie marathon.
6 years ago
$1.2 million in grants to help combat Delaware homelessness
Thirteen programs to help Delaware’s population experiencing homelessness will share $1.2 million in funding from the state and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh.
6 years ago
As Philly tallies homeless population, advocates say families are overlooked
Advocates for Philadelphia’s homeless are demanding more funding for family shelters and prevention.
6 years ago