Housing

We used to have it — and housing advocates are pushing for a return.

One year ago, a family died in a Philadelphia rooming house fire. City officials promised reform. Nothing has changed.

A deadly house fire at an illegal rooming house in North Philadelphia last March had city officials calling for reform. But one year later, nothing has changed.

According to New Jersey state officials, there are 20,000 active foreclosure cases currently making their way through the courts.

Philadelphia’s ‘road map’ for Eastwick development moves a process 60 years in the making forward.

Philadelphia Housing Authority reopened Sharswood Tower on Wednesday. Residents returning home celebrated their zhuzhed up digs.

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 new low-interest loan program aimed at helping Philadelphia homeowners fix aging or damaged homes will provide $40 million worth of repairs to qualified applicants.

The legislation is intended to foster the creation of affordable housing and reduce evictions.

A Wilmington public housing partnership ran out of money when donations dried up. The city was forced to make loan payments for the agency and has now taken control.

City Councilman Allan Domb has introduced legislation to shrink — but not substantially change — the controversial tax break.

Mayor Jim Kenney says he's looking for a new assessment chief because current property assessments have been off target by 15 percent in large swaths of the city.

A building collapse last week in Fishtown and another recent collapse in Germantown has inspired City Council to finance a crackdown on unsafe construction contractors.

The Family Self-Sufficiency program connects residents with experts who help them become financially stable enough to be able to purchase their own home.