
Housing
Murphy signs package of bills aimed at easing New Jersey foreclosure crisis
With bipartisan accord, N.J. lawmakers have crafted laws to help homeowners caught in the foreclosure crisis. Gov. Phil Murphy signed the legislation into law on Monday.
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Philly housing costs rising faster for poor and middle class than for the wealthy
Housing costs are growing for low-income renters but not higher-income renters and homeowners, worsening income inequality in the Philadelphia region and nationally.
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New help is here for Philly seniors who want stay in their homes
A new program launched by Thomas Jefferson University, Drexel and Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia is helping seniors live independently in their homes.
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Listen 2:57Most Philly Council candidates oppose the 10-year tax abatement
Philadelphia’s tax break for new construction has become a rallying cry among the 46 City Council candidates that will be on the primary ballot in May.
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More inventors, more renters: Four surprising takeaways from Pew’s annual report on Philly
Pew’s ‘State of the City’ report reads like Philly’s annual physical, clocking growth, successes, and struggles over the past 10 years.
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Illegal construction is causing an uptick in building collapses. Will Philly hire more inspectors?
Illegal construction has already damaged more Philly houses in 2019 than in prior years — three to date compared to one or two incidents in a typical year.
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Housing Department slaps Facebook with discrimination charge
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is suing social media giant Facebook for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act.
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Why doesn’t Philadelphia have rent control like many other big cities?
We used to have it — and housing advocates are pushing for a return.
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Rooms for rent: Inside Philadelphia’s shadow housing market
One year ago, a family died in a Philadelphia rooming house fire. City officials promised reform. Nothing has changed.
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Room to disagree: Why Philly can’t decide what to do with its illegal rooming houses
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.
Air Date: March 28, 2019
Listen 15:29Trenton tackles N.J.’s foreclosure rate, down but still highest in nation
According to New Jersey state officials, there are 20,000 active foreclosure cases currently making their way through the courts.
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Philadelphia seeks to heal old Eastwick wound with a ‘village in the city’
Philadelphia’s ‘road map’ for Eastwick development moves a process 60 years in the making forward.
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Sharswood residents return home after $28 million tower upgrade
Philadelphia Housing Authority reopened Sharswood Tower on Wednesday. Residents returning home celebrated their zhuzhed up digs.
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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.
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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.
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