Homelessness

Workers can earn $50 cash for a half-day of cleaning up streets or vacant lots around Kensington. Demand is already high.

Project HOME, Independence Blue Cross and AmeriHealth Caritas unveiled a 3-year, $1 million initiative to offer services to reduce the harm of poverty.

After a relationship ended three years ago, Michael Thomas had to move out. He found himself homeless for the first time in his life.

Visitors can no longer carry in wheeled carts, blankets or luggage. Some believe the new rules target people experiencing homelessness.

A woman lived in her car in front of our apartment building for a couple of weeks.

Project HOME’s underground “Living Room” is a place to play and sing.

About 50 Rutgers-Camden students will trade their warm beds for cardboard and sleeping bags in the quad outside the campus center as part of a “sleep out.”

Inside Bill Golderer’s big, bold — and, dare we say, revolutionary — idea for tackling poverty in Philadelphia.

The inaugural Hands Up Music Fest is coming to Penn Treaty Park.

The Wilmington arts center has been fostering creativity and soothing minds for nine years, but the character of the neighborhood around it is changing.

The city’s Shared Public Spaces program was so successful, stakeholders are expanding its reach.

Demand for the work program run by Mural Arts is greater than the slots available. Now, Philly is doubling down on the model with $300k and another pilot.

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.