The reform, known as Small Area Fair Market Rent, affects those enrolled in the Housing Choice Voucher Program, formerly known as Section 8. From: Philadelphia Media Network (Read more.)
The Reentry Project — a solutions-oriented reporting collaborative focused on reducing recidivism in Philadelphia — took top Community Engagement honors in the APME Awards for 2018 which were announced Monday. (Read more.)
Could co-living be the answer to our affordable housing prayers? From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
From WHYY: The new Poor People’s Campaign is organized around “four evils” – systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and environmental devastation.
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• Philly Unveils a Plan to Deal with the Eviction Crisis | From: Next City
• Why a Philly councilman wants to stop marijuana testing for parolees | From: Billy Penn
• Reframing economic injustice in America’s poorest big city | From: Columbia Journalism Review
• New Media Initiative Looks to Find Solutions to Philadelphia’s Enduring Poverty Problem | From: Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity (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.)
Poverty has long been a central challenge for the city of Philadelphia. Now, a collection of the region’s media organizations – including both large and general interest newsrooms and small community and ethnic media – are working to cover the issue more robustly and identify potential solutions. From: Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity (Read more.)
Councilman Derek Green last month proposed a change to Philadelphia drug policy: he wants to stop testing people on parole for pot use. Making that change, he believes, would reduce Philly’s prison population and open up more treatment beds for people with addiction. (Read more.)
Landlords filed for eviction 24,000 times in 2017, meaning one in every 14 renters in the city faced eviction at some point during the year. From: Next City (Read more.)
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