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Housing

Social Issues: After Parkway Encampment, Activists Begin Process of Moving People Into Homes

June 21, 2021 Claire Brennan

Last summer, amid Black Lives Matter protests and conflict between civilians and police, a fever for social justice erupted in Philadelphia. Alongside calls for racial justice, unhoused Philadelphians created encampments along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway,

Housing

Mill Creek: Rosemare Bryant Enriches Community With New Center

March 20, 2019 Grace Shallow

Rosemare Bryant can juggle. Not balls, but multiple roles that embed her in Mill Creek, a neighborhood west of Belmont. Bryant oversees programming for the Lucien E. Blackwell Community Center and is president of the

Fairmount Park

Strawberry Mansion: Property Developers Strive To Improve Neighborhood

February 27, 2018 Matt Rego

When walking through Strawberry Mansion, you may notice an overabundance of vacant properties and abandoned houses. It was not always like this. Due to redlining, a racist collusion between banks and city government, where people

Education

Sharswood: Vaux High School Reopens Under New Management

December 13, 2017 Michaela Winberg

Vaux Reopens Kelvin Jeremiah was shocked when he spoke to children from the Sharswood Blumberg towers that many of them didn’t know the “Rocky steps” were in Philadelphia. Many of them had never been to

Sharswood

Sharswood: PHA Grocery Store Can Improve Food Access

November 1, 2017 Emily Scott

For Joe Wise to buy fresh fruits and vegetables, he has to walk nearly a mile away to the Fresh Grocer of Progress Plaza on Broad Street near Oxford. Wise, who lives at 21st and

Economy

Social Issues: “There Is An Affordable Housing Crisis That Confronts The City In Some Real Ways.”

September 11, 2017 Jared Phillips

Kelvin Jeremiah, the president and CEO of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, has brought unique ideas from previous stops in Springfield, Massachusetts and New York City to help develop better living conditions for some of Philadelphia’s

Crime

Sharswood: Proposed Transformation Of Struggling Neighborhood Raises Concerns, Hope

May 4, 2016 Paige C Gross

Talmadge Belo narrowed his eyes under the shadow of his baseball cap, his gaze zeroed in on something across the street. “That used to be the nicest house on the block,” said Belo, the vice

Center City

City Hall: PHA Receives Grant to Plan Revitalization of Area Around Blumberg Apartments

December 13, 2013

The Philadelphia Housing Authority announced last month that it will receive a $500,000 grant to plan redevelopment at the Norman Blumberg Apartments in North Philadelphia. The grant was part of $4.37 million that was awarded

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Arts and Entertainment

Point Breeze: Philadelphia Youth Music Partnership Presents Opportunities to Youths

December 2, 2013

On the exterior, Wilson Park Apartments may not look any different than the dozens of other project housing units owned by the Philadelphia Housing Authority but as the saying goes, looks can be deceiving. During

Kyle Flood explains the housing units on pulaski
Featured Stories

Germantown: Future of Queen Lane Apartments Concerns Residents

October 26, 2012

A community meeting was held last night at Mount Moriah Baptist Church on 5333 W. Pulaski Ave with the Philadelphia Housing Authority  officials and Germantown residents to address concerns about the future of the Queen

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