Housing

Housing costs are growing for low-income renters but not higher-income renters and homeowners, worsening income inequality in the Philadelphia region and nationally.

A new program launched by Thomas Jefferson University, Drexel and Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia is helping seniors live independently in their homes.

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.

Pew’s ‘State of the City’ report reads like Philly’s annual physical, clocking growth, successes, and struggles over the past 10 years.

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.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is suing social media giant Facebook for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act.

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.