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Housing

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. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

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.

6 years ago

Rowhomes at 34th and Spring Garden Street for sale or rent. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
Broke in Philly

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.

6 years ago

Bobby McCurdy outside of his home in North Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

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.

6 years ago

Listen 2:57
Candidates hold yes signs aloft signaling their agreement with the proposal of a representative speaker. Twenty candidates for city council attended a candidates forum at Congregation Rodeph Shalom on March 24, 2019. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy
PlanPhilly

Most 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.

6 years ago

A view of the Philadelphia skyline from the Market-Frankford elevated line in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

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.

6 years ago

A house once stood on an empty lot on Tulip Street in Old Richmond. It collapsed because of faulty demo next door. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

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.

6 years ago

NPR
Courts & Law

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.

6 years ago

Philly rowhouses
Community
Broke In Philly

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.

6 years ago

James Smith Jr. rents a room in Victor Pickney's rooming house. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

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.

6 years ago

The deadly fire that engulfed 1855 N. 21st St. began on the second floor. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Urban Planning

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 15:29
According to New Jersey state officials, there are 20,000 active foreclosure cases currently making their way through the courts. (David J. Phillip/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy
NJ Spotlight

Trenton 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.

6 years ago

Terry Williams standing in one of Eastwick's polluted, urban renewal tracts.  (Troubled Waters Project)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

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.

6 years ago

Ricardo Wilson moved into his unit in the new Sharswood Tower in North Philadelphia this week. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

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.

6 years ago

One Day At A Time expands its shelter services by 50-60 beds in the winter. (Michaela Winberg/Billy Penn)
Community
Broke in Philly

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.

6 years ago

A rendering of Inglis Methodist Gardens, part of Methodist Services’ 22-acre campus off Monument Road in West Philly. (Provided)
Urban Planning

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.

6 years ago

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