This UC Townhomes resident is still searching for a new home as the affordable housing subsidy nears expiration. Here’s what that looks like.
“The way the system is set up, it's not there to help you,” said the West Philly grandmom.
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UC Townhomes residents get more time as HUD grants another affordable housing extension
It’s the third reprieve for tenants at the West Philadelphia complex, which the property owner intends to sell.
There’s a huge new neighborhood rising on the waterfront below Graffiti Pier
Phase one of Northbank has townhomes priced at $500k and up. Over 100 households have already moved in.
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UC Townhomes residents: We won’t give up without a fight
As the deadline to vacate the West Philly affordable housing complex nears, activists vow to continue pressing for a better plan.
Three-quarters of millennials living in Philly grew up nearby, per a new census study
People with wealthier parents were more likely to leave the Philadelphia region.
Housing activists set up new West Philly encampment, with over a dozen tents and a new slogan: ‘We ain’t going nowhere’
The property at stake is known as the UC Townhomes, and it's in the continually-gentrifying University City area.
West Philly’s Memorial Garden is 19 years old — and deemed open for development
The community green space in Haddington was awarded to a Turn the Key developer with little notice or discussion. The Land Bank is now reconsidering its process.
Can Philly count? Advocates say hundreds more young people are experiencing homelessness than the city will acknowledge
Eighteen to 24-year-olds often “couch surf” if they can, and generally avoid agency services.
Philly rents grew 6% during the pandemic, but they increased twice as fast in the suburbs
The cost of renting in Philadelphia is lower than many other major cities, but over half of tenants are “cost-burdened.”
Should the board that helps enforce Philly’s fair housing laws be made permanent? It’s a ballot question in the May primary
The FHC has been operating since 1962, but it's not yet written into the charter.
Germantown Quakers plan to give $500,000 as reparations to Black neighbors over the next decade
Green Street Friends is starting with a series of legal clinics to help preserve the wealth of Black homeowners.
The 18-year-old son of late housing activist Jennifer Bennetch started a GoFundMe to help him and his siblings
Bennetch died last week of COVID at age 36.
PHA owns thousands of other rowhomes like the one that burned in Fairmount
The housing authority has a huge portfolio of so-called “scatter sites,” which were long neglected.
Philly’s unique and successful Way Home program is helping LGBTQ people find housing
Originally dependent on CARES Act funding, advocates are working to make it last.
Sinking in Southwest Philly: How Eastwick can survive the battle with urban flooding
A neighborhood dealing with climate disaster hopes new grants bring relief.
Idea for Philly homeowners who want to give back: Rent like your kids live here | Opinion
Renting a room is an alternative to giving grants.
Philadelphia’s eviction diversion program is a national model — let it continue | Opinion
The program could abruptly end if the Pa. Supreme Court doesn’t extend its waiver.
With over 45,000 Philadelphians waiting for rent relief, the city is running out of money
Philly is distributing more funding than earlier in the pandemic, but many residents are still waiting.
Squatting for survival in Philadelphia: What it’s like to live in a ‘takeover house’
Occupying vacant properties has long been a tool of political protest — but it also lets families find homes.
‘Fecal samples’ against gentrification? Research activism raises red flags in West Philly
Temple said it had not approved the research solicited by professor and activist Ang Sun.