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Housing

Removing plaster from the ceiling involves yanking it down onto your head, until you are calf-deep in broken plaster. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Warning: Renovating your house can damage your health

Among the telltale signs are: questionable judgment; willingness to take on backbreaking labor; inability to delegate tasks. And stress, lots of stress.

7 years ago

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Snow falls on a street food vendor as he makes his way down Broadway with his cart past steam rising in New York, NY. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
The Pulse
Health

How to address New York City building emissions? One option: Start with steam

The inefficiencies of steam have gone unchecked for years. But now, that may change. Earlier this year, New York City passed a landmark law to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions

7 years ago

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Cesar Viveros, a multimedia artist who works for the Mural Arts Program. He and his children have been been displaced from their Kensington home due to faulty construction next door. COURTSEY CESAR VIVEROS
Urban Planning
Billy Penn

How faulty construction breaks up Philly families — and why the city can’t stop it

Some developers ignore permits, then keep on building.

7 years ago

Construction work on the foundations of phase three of The Flats redevelopment is well underway in Wilmington. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Urban Planning

Next phase of $100M affordable housing overhaul begins in Wilmington

The Flats is in the midst of a major $100 million project to tear down and rebuild more than 400 affordable housing units over ten years.

7 years ago

City Council member Blondell Reynolds Brown advocates for her bill requiring universal lead checks for rental units at a June 6, 2019 press conference. (David Kim)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

City Hall is uniting around a lead poisoning law hated by landlords

City Councilmember Blondell Reynolds Brown said the issues delaying a vote on a controversial regulation have been resolved. Landlords aren’t happy.

7 years ago

Fairhill apartments in North Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia Housing Authority moves to demolish one of its last surviving towers

One of Philly’s last surviving public housing towers is moving towards demolition. Many tenants say the time is right.

7 years ago

Ground was broken Wednesday on a model unit on a 700 square-foot, city-owned parcel of land at 2147 Orleans Street in Greater Kensington. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

A Philly woman is building ‘not tiny’ houses for formerly homeless people — and their pets

Nonprofit developer Stephanie Sena will test her model for low-cost, infill housing on vacant land acquired from the Philadelphia Land Bank in 2018.

7 years ago

Sheila Armstrong stands in the living room of her 13th floor apartment at the Harrison Plaza buidling at 1050 North 10th Street where she installed an A/C unit to deal with the summer heat. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community
PlanPhilly

Should landlords be required to provide air conditioning?

As temperatures soar and Philly officials invite residents to cool off in air-conditioned city buildings, Maryland lawmakers want to mandate landlords provide AC at home.

7 years ago

The City of Wilmington wants to change its housing code in an effort to clean up dilapidated and vacant homes. This house is on the 2300 block of N. Market St. (Courtesy of the City of Wilmington)
Community

Wilmington landlords, residents disagree over proposed housing code

A new housing code proposed by the city aims to hold slumlords accountable to clean up dilapidated and vacant homes.

7 years ago

People watch from the beach Wednesday, July 10, 2013, as a home severely damaged by Superstorm Sandy is demolished in the Normandy Beach section of Toms River, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo, file)
Down the Shore
Politics & Policy

N.J. extends mortgage protections for Superstorm Sandy victims

The bipartisan legislation extends foreclosure protection and mortgage relief programs for certain Superstorm Sandy-impacted homeowners.

7 years ago

A foreclosure sign in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. will create statewide foreclosure database in latest attempt to combat crisis

Home foreclosure is still a big problem in New Jersey. A new database could help.

7 years ago

Parking garage at 12th and Sansom streets. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

A soaring tower designed for seniors to rise in Center City

A soaring tower designed with aging baby boomers in mind is coming to a prime Center City intersection. 

7 years ago

Philadelphia City Council member Maria Quiñones-Sánchez
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Philadelphia’s controversial new affordable housing policy might actually be working

The compromise that helped end City Council’s two-year-long fight over how to finance affordable housing is beginning to bear fruit.

7 years ago

Ethel Halley is one of the first residents to move into 311 Cooper. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Urban Planning

Camden waterfront gets first new market-rate apartments in 15 years

The 156-unit complex is the latest structure to go up in Camden with the help of controversial state tax breaks.

7 years ago

Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

Force big developers to offer community benefits? Philly’s Council President wants to make it law

Right before summer recess, Council President Darrell Clarke introduced new legislation that would force some developers to offer perks to communities.

7 years ago

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