Housing

Paulo Garcia used to sleep in the baseball dugout and empty homes. He found help and housing a year later, motivated by his 2-year-old.

The development sits on Germantown Avenue in the neighborhood’s central business district.

In this episode, we speak with Mecca Robinson, founder of Forget Me Knot Children & Youth Services, and her residents about the intersection of homelessness and foster care.

The Whole-Home Repairs Program is a victim of its own success. Additional funding is held up by the state’s budget impasse.

The former owner of the Oak Lane Diner has plans to bring the business back after a fire closed it in 2015.

In this episode, a group of young mothers, a street outreach worker, and Marisol Bello from the Housing Narrative Lab speak about the challenges facing unhoused young moms.

Throngs of holiday travelers at airports across the country put heavy stress on an already strained aviation system. We hear about an investigation into airport safety.

Rents took off in the wake of pandemic shutdowns and have only started to soften.

In eight years, the OHS office became known nationwide for its public and private partnerships, as well as new funding to build more homes.

Fifty percent of office space in Philadelphia is sitting empty. Can it be turned into housing and what would that mean for the city? And, would you be a good pig parent?

The five-part podcast series examines youth homelessness in Philadelphia and explores solutions to end a largely invisible plight for thousands of the city’s young people.

Getting federal funding to address youth homelessness is predicated on the success of Philly’s programs over the next two years.

The Shepherd's Office in Southern Delaware takes proactive measures by providing cold weather shelter for women, addressing the lack of resources.

The volume of home sales across Pennsylvania were down 20% compared to October 2022, but that’s not because there aren’t interested home buyers.

The neighborhood high school closed in 2013 along with nearly two dozen others.