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Housing

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

In Philly, HUD Secretary Ben Carson finds evidence that ‘housing-first’ policies work

9 years ago

Fire gutted this house at 1855 N. 21st St., killing four people.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Renter beware: Philly’s deadly housing problem

Invisible, uncounted tenants like the Johnsons are nothing new in Philadelphia.

9 years ago

Garbage is piled in front of an apartment complex in Lower Germantown.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Philly’s $9 million goodbye to Germantown’s worst landlord

Everyone has crossed paths with a bad landlord.

9 years ago

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Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books on the corner of Church Street and Germantown Avenue in East Germantown. (Michael Bixler/Hidden City)
PlanPhilly
Community

We asked Philly to tell us what gentrification feels like. Here’s what we heard.

Here is some of the talkback we got on social media about our gentrification series.

9 years ago

Listen 5:46
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, March 14, 2018

We visit several of the schools in our region that participated in the national student walkout to protest gun violence. Movita Johnson-H ...

Air Date: March 14, 2018

Listen 17:13
A bus leaves the correctional complex on State Road in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
Courts & Law

Coalition gets data to help cut Philadelphia’s recidivism rate

The 24-page report provides a snapshot of these former inmates – their gender, race and what ZIP codes they’re expected to call home.

9 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Mapping Philly’s black homeownership gap

9 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Bartram Village wins $1.3 million grant, kickstarting redevelopment

9 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Republican Councilman David Oh introduces $50 million affordable housing bill

9 years ago

A rendering of an interior courtyard planned for 2035 Lehigh Ave.
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

City approves plan to build luxury housing in Conrail’s backyard

The ruling is the latest example of the board allowing real estate interests to skirt existing land use regulations, despite community opposition.

9 years ago

Manuel Pomeles waters his garden in the North Central neighborhood revitalized with support from HUD's axed Choice Neighborhoods program. (Jake Blumgart/PlanPhilly)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

How Trump’s budget would turn back the clock on progress in Philly’s neighborhoods

Trump's proposed FY2019 budget poses a massive threat to Philly's progress stabilizing neighborhoods, preventing foreclosures and fighting homelessness, city officials say.

9 years ago

Philadelphia City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Councilman Kenyatta Johnson to introduce bill for a hearing on racial disparities in the Philadelphia home loan market

"These disparities hurt all Philadelphians and likely impact my constituents disproportionately,” the Point Breeze councilman said.

9 years ago

Councilman Curtis Jones
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

‘Just cause’ eviction bill clears City Council committee

On Tuesday, a bill intended to protect renters from being evicted without “good cause” moved one step closer to a vote by City Council.

9 years ago

Shalonda Cooper shows pictures of her mother, Windora, before and after she got sick. She says the poor, segregated neighborhood she grew up in contributed to her mother's bad health. (Jake J. Smith)
The Pulse
Health

How segregation leads to health disparities

In Chicago, one doctor traces the health disparities between white and black residents to the neighborhoods where they live.

9 years ago

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The public housing project the Farragut Houses in Brooklyn, New York. The budget blueprint President Donald Trump released Thursday calls for the cutting of billions of dollars in funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

White House budget calls for deep cuts to HUD

The White House budget is non-binding but carries weight as a statement of the president's spending priorities.

9 years ago

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