Housing

Despite a recent building boom, Philadelphia’s housing market has not recovered from the Great Recession, especially outside Center City.

It began two years ago when Lenny Bazemore bought his best friend's house in Norristown, Pa. and donated it to Habitat for Humanity.

Many of the homes, often run by people in long-term recovery themselves, operate in good faith, but others have unsafe living conditions and do little to further sober living.

Work on the Blumberg tower's 94 apartments in North Phily is expected to be finished in a year. It's part of a $500 million redevelopment of the Sharswood neighborhood.

Norris — which has housed generations of low-income Philadelphians —  is undergoing a redevelopment.

Once sleepy sheriff's auctions have become crowded with bidders hoping to cash in on skyrocketing real estate prices.