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Homelessness

A person sleeps on a sidewalk near New York's Times Square this past week. A new report says more and more American cities are passing laws that make it illegal to sleep outside, on the street, in a park or in your own car. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Opinion: Should it be illegal to sleep outside?

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

6 years ago

John Oliver, Jr., plays guitar at Hub of Hope's Living Room (Michaela WInberg/Billy Penn)
Community
Billy Penn

In Suburban Station, live music brings holiday joy to the Hub of Hope

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

6 years ago

Rutgers-Camden student Nitan Shanas embraces Joseph's House client and volunteer Liz Holmes in the lobby of the Camden homeless shelter where they met. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education

Rutgers students ‘sleep out’ in Camden to support local homeless shelter

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.”

6 years ago

Bill Golderer inside the Arch Street Presbyterian Church. (Justin James Muir)
Community
Broke in Philly

Can this charismatic pastor rally Philly around its most intractable problem?

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

6 years ago

Community meal in North Philadelphia. (Pheed Philly/Instagram)
Billy Penn
Community

Dancing, DJs and art: Waterfront day party raises money for Philadelphians experiencing homelessness

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

6 years ago

The Creative Vision Factory is a peer-run drop-in center that aims to use art and a welcoming atmosphere to help people struggling with mental illness, homelessness and addiction. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Community

Upgrading the neighborhood makes a treasured arts spot uneasy

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

7 years ago

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Pennsylvania Convention Center
Community
Billy Penn

How Philly convinced business leaders to be part of the homelessness solution

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

7 years ago

Becky Green, 27, stands in front of the mural she helped to create in SEPTA Suburban Station. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

City emulates Mural Arts’ ‘same-day pay’ work model after seeing big demand

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.

7 years ago

(Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Community
Broke in Philly

Philly ‘Host Home’ program aims to slash LGBTQ youth homelessness, shelter costs

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.

7 years ago

Ground was broken Wednesday on a model unit on a 700 square-foot, city-owned parcel of land at 2147 Orleans Street in Greater Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

A Philly woman is building ‘not tiny’ houses for formerly homeless people — and their pets

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

7 years ago

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross answers reporters questions about an investigation into racist Facebook posts by active duty police officers. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 07/22/19

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.

Air Date: July 22, 2019 10:00 am

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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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 years ago

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