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Homelessness

Pre-heat wave, Kevin Riordan (left) and Carrie Wagner offer services to a person experiencing homelessness. MICHAELA WINBERG / BILLY PENN
Community
Billy Penn

Heat wave response: Philly’s quadrupling homeless outreach for Code Red

The “feels like” temp could hit 113 degrees.

6 years ago

Symphony Ramson plays on the floor of the new apartment she and her dad will live in for a year. (Courtesy of Bergen Rental Communities)
Community
Broke in Philly

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

Tyrone Webb stirs green paint in a small room in Suburban Station. He's painting as part of the Same Day Work program. (Michael Bryant/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Community
Broke in Philly

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

Philadelphia's Office of Homeless Services is in line to get $800,000 to keep families from becoming homeless. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

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

Damilla, a One Step Away vendor (ONE STEP AWAY)
Community
Billy Penn

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

Dee McDowell (left), who is experiencing homelessness, collects her mail from volunteer Chris Martin at Broad Street Ministry on Avenue of the Arts. (Anthony Pezzoti/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Community
Broke in Philly

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

Rendering of the Fusion Arena. (Courtesy of Comcast Spectator)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Regional Roundup 4/1

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

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One Day At A Time expands its shelter services by 50-60 beds in the winter. (Michaela Winberg/Billy Penn)
Community
Broke in Philly

When 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

A rendering of Inglis Methodist Gardens, part of Methodist Services’ 22-acre campus off Monument Road in West Philly. (Provided)
Urban Planning

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

People living at the encampment at Kensington Avenue. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

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

The homeless women staying at Fernwood East found a safe-haven at the shelter, but they are scheduled to be kicked out on March 28. (Pixabay)
Community
Broke In Philly

Outside looking in: Women fight eviction date from local homeless shelter while men’s side stays open

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

Malcolm Flowers (left) checks a trash can as Cristina
Money
Broke in Philly

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 Cinema cited by Homeless Services offering shelter all night during the code blue. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

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

Katherine Banks discusses how Lutheran Community Services helped her avoid homelessness at the LCS office in Wilmington Monday morning. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Community

$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

Bruce Thomas talks about the years that he and his family were homeless during a press conference at City Hall. According to data presented by Council members Helen Gym and Allan Domb and members of the Family Service Provider Network, homeless families in Philadelphia are undercounted and underserved.
Community

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

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