Homelessness

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.

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.

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.