Housing

Seeded with roughly $11 million in city funds, the Philadelphia Accelerator Fund aims to finance Black and brown developers to build affordable housing.

A record low supply of homes for sale and strong demand from buyers are sending home prices to record levels and frustrating homebuyers who keep getting outbid.

The funding is part of an effort by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to study whether changing a child's zip code can improve their life in the long term.

It comes after more than two years of collaboration, interviews, and data collection conducted by an inter-departmental coalition of Montco leaders.

Lauren P. McKenna, Catherine Carr, and Joseph A. Sullivan urge the city to invest $3 million in eviction prevention funding to contain the housing crisis.

Philadelphia’s Land Bank is the city’s primary vehicle for assembling parcels for developments and a tool for generating affordable housing.

Councilmember Jamie Gauthier released a statement opposing plans for a proposed West Philly apartment building that had sparked controversial research.

This week; getting Delaware residents legal protection when evicted, a preview of the Pa. primary, and combating bee population decline.

Housing advocates say that without the moratorium the only thing standing between tenants and eviction is the more than $50 billion in aid the federal government has promised.

While most landlords in Delaware have lawyers, just 2% of renters have any legal counsel when being evicted. Some state lawmakers want to change that.

Philadelphia’s top homelessness official defended the city’s strategy for housing people in need and pointed to long-term funding challenges.

After years of drama over unfair property taxes, Council considers a land tax that advocates believe could lower assessments for some property owners.

Such fraud is fueled by a white-hot real estate market, said Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Esack, with the office’s Economic Crimes unit.

A controversial city contract that outsourced sheriff sales to a private online auction house was issued in violation of Philadelphia's government contracting laws.

Philadelphia’s nationally recognized eviction prevention initiative would see support from the city cut in half under the mayor’s proposed budget.