Housing
Property company gives Philly homeless free apartments for a year
Hope & Door is a partnership between Berger Rental and One Step Away. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Month: June 2019
Income and Wages
Philly launched a program to put Suburban Station’s homeless population to work. Here’s what happened.
A lottery offers some a paid morning’s work with Mural Arts Philadelphia. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Housing
As changes come to Pa. Medicaid transit program, counties fear bumps in road
A change introduced by the new budget bill will privatize medical transportation for Medicaid recipients. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Ideas We Should Steal: Reducing Poverty—Together
In Canada, communities lifted more than 200,000 families out of poverty in seven years. Why don’t we do what they did? | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Health
Los precios de las medicinas en Pennsylvania y sus efectos en comunidades vulnerables | Primera Parte
Learn with us what a PBM manager means, how drug pricing works and how and why Philadelphia, the poorest of the big cities in the USA, is getting poor thanks to the free market. | From: DosPuntos (Read more.)
Education
Having hard conversations with children about race and difference
Impressions and attitudes are developed very early, so it is important for parents and teachers to deal with the issue directly. | From: The Philadelphia Public School Notebook (Read more.)
Education
Mt. Airy early childhood center works on increasing diversity
Recruitment, workshops, and “challenging” discussions about racism are all part of the effort. Next up in this series tomorrow: Talking race and gender to preschoolers. | From: The Philadelphia Public School Notebook (Read more.)
Health
Why Philly landlords are fighting Blondell Reynolds Brown over lead
High levels of lead affect children’s health and development throughout Philadelphia. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Housing
Rebuild: Investing in Improvements to Neighborhood Parks, Recreation Centers, and Libraries
Made possible by the Philadelphia Beverage Tax and a matching grant from the William Penn Foundation, Rebuild is an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars into facilities’ improvements at neighborhood parks, recreation centers, and libraries. | From: CityWide Stories (Read more.)
Health
Food program stepping up to save school lunches, food for low-income people
Philadelphia Warehousing & Cold Storage has for decades stored and distributed U.S. Department of Agriculture food for Philadelphia-area school lunches. It has done the same for USDA food for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) — excess product from farmers given to low-income Americans. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)