Income Inequality

The Chaparros are one of 50 Puerto Rican evacuee families in Philadelphia finally able to settle into a long-term home, thanks to the work of local organizers.

Licenses and Inspections Commissioner Dave Perri wants to radically rewrite Philadelphia’s zoning code to make room for smaller, more inexpensive housing units.

Democracy is eroding as people lose faith in an open society and a country that doesn't work for them, and a government that doesn't meet their needs or serve their interests.

A battle is raging in City Hall over the latest round of property reassessments and now, a faction of Council members have introduced a new weapon in the fight: their votes

As of this month, families will be able to be able to use vouchers that can be stretched to cover higher rent in select deemed higher opportunity zones by the PHA.

Through the study, the two researchers sought to untangle the impacts of wealthier people moving into less affluent neighborhoods.

WHYY is one of 19 news organizations producing Broke in Philly, a collaborative reporting project on solutions to poverty.

The Trump administration is considering a plan that would allow states to require certain food stamp recipients to undergo drug testing.

Philadelphia City Council is expected to announce on Wednesday an ambitious package of affordable housing bills — including a new tax on construction.

A national survey of college students found 36 percent struggle to find enough to eat or have a safe place to live.

On the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., economists, psychologists and sociologists discussed racial and economic disparity in the United St

Fifty years dead, Martin Luther King reminds us that we can still see the stars.

State Sen. Vincent Hughes intends to introduce his Pennsylvania Promise legislation on April 16.

Banks argue that the data used in a recent report that found racial disparities in Philadelphia mortgage lending doesn’t represent the full scope of their lending activities.

A lawsuit by the ACLU of Delaware charges that that the state’s school funding system deprives poor, disabled and non-English speaking students of an adequate education.