Housing

A new national study calls the country’s housing choice voucher program — formerly known as Section 8 — 'daunting' for low-income residents hoping to leave poverty behind.

But this stretch of Mole Street is actually quite singular: It is the only remaining block of rowhouses left in this part of Center City.

Permanent supportive housing is one of the most expensive, full-service models out there for helping people experiencing homelessness regain stability.

Ten years after the housing collapse during the Great Recession, a new and different housing crisis has emerged.

George Fantini’s dozens of properties, mostly in Claymont, have had nearly 2,000 county code enforcement inspections and 418 code enforcement violations, officials say.

Former board chairman questions the suitability of new leader and voting procedure to hire him.

In Philadelphia, fears about development and neighborhood change are often couched in terms of rising home values and increasing property taxes.

Poor-quality houses and unusually high poverty tilt the equation so that demand far outstrips supply here, making affordable homes hard to obtain and difficult to manage.

In eviction cases, research has found, the vast majority of tenants do not have access to lawyers, while the vast majority of landlords do.

What good are big plans without any funding?

In Philadelphia, not having a safe, stable place to live prevents parents whose children have been placed in foster care from regaining custody 40 percent of the time.

A new report from the real estate firm Houwzer aims to dissuade politicians from cutting the 10-year property-tax abatement on new construction.