The Chester Housing Authority is one of nine agencies in the country chosen to receive this funding. The city is slated to get 56 new housing vouchers, in addition to the $3.5 million, which will pay to help people fill out lease applications, move into their new homes, and other logistical support for families. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
La petición ha alcanzado las 2,110,683 firmas y tiene como meta alcanzar las 3,000,000. | From: Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Local health and hunger experts say that while exact numbers have yet to be reported, the pandemic has most likely worsened what was already one of the highest child food insecurity rates in the country. According to Feeding America, Philadelphia’s 2018 child food insecurity rate was 24.2% and the projected 2021 rate is 28.6%. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
The new federal child tax credits have the potential to lift 75,000 households in Philadelphia out of poverty in one year, according to official city estimates. But officials and nonprofit tax preparers are openly fretting that many qualifying families will not receive the payments at all, or will receive them late. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
About one million Pennsylvania children enrolled in public schools will begin receiving a combined $1 billion in cash assistance this week through the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program. Eligibility is limited to students who receive free or reduced school lunch who attended virtual school in 2020-21. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
A recent report conducted by AARP Pennsylvania and Drexel University highlights the disparities those in the state’s underserved communities face. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit can help provide hiring bonuses for small businesses competing for workers. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
The federal incentive allows investors to skip out on capital gains tax in exchange for making long-term investments in businesses or developments in certain low-income areas | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The Chester Housing Authority is one of nine agencies in the country chosen to receive this funding. The city is slated to get 56 new housing vouchers, in addition to the $3.5 million, which will pay to help people fill out lease applications, move into their new homes, and other logistical support for families. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Mayor Jim Kenney’s budget doesn’t include new funding for the city’s Land Bank — local government’s primary vehicle for redeveloping vacant public property. The zeroed-out budget proved to be a problem the administration’s Director of Planning and Development Anne Fadullon and City Council could agree on in Wednesday’s contentious budget hearing. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The first-term councilmember, an urban planner who has made access to housing a strong part of her platform, said she will use her councilmanic influence against the project despite acknowledgment that a likely outcome of the variance’s refusal will be less affordable housing at the site. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Pese a que el gobierno federal apeló la decisión de un tribunal en suspender la moratoria de desalojos, el anuncio no ha quitado ningún peso de preocupación entre algunos inquilinos de Filadelfia. | From: Telemundo (Read more.)
Mayor Jim Kenney’s budget doesn’t include new funding for the city’s Land Bank — local government’s primary vehicle for redeveloping vacant public property. The zeroed-out budget proved to be a problem the administration’s Director of Planning and Development Anne Fadullon and City Council could agree on in Wednesday’s contentious budget hearing. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Philadelphia’s newest COVID-19 recovery fund aims to provide an economic lifeline to neighborhood-based organizations. But in an unconventional twist, the grant program will offer neighborhood residents a say in where the money goes. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
In Philly, as in the country as a whole, anti-Asian hate crimes are on the rise. An all-volunteer chaperone service in Oakland, California, is doing its part to protect the community | From: The Citizen (Read more.)
The pilot program, called Owl Link, is designed to help workers from the city access the growing distribution industry in Lower Bucks County, particularly near the recently-built interchange connecting I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
La petición ha alcanzado las 2,110,683 firmas y tiene como meta alcanzar las 3,000,000. | From: Telemundo62 (Read more.)
In the dozen-or-so stories Broke has published since its launch, its media partners have made strides in avoiding stereotypes and stigmatizing language. The group has also made community engagement central to the project’s development, event planning, and reporting process. From: Columbia Journalism Review (Read more.)
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