The hour-long webinar featured what all Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians need to know about the resources available to keep them in their homes. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
With the start of the school year just weeks away, city officials on Thursday announced a plan to provide free internet access for 35,000 low-income families that currently lack it. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Nelson is the founder of Mama-Tee, an e-commerce store and apparel brand that recently launched the Community Fridge Project. Designed to provide food for those in need, the project features refrigerators, painted in a signature, bright-banana-colored yellow, set up outdoors for anyone to access. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Both Philadelphia officials and organizers of the homeless encampment on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway — two months old as of Monday — have discussed the possibility of using tiny homes to house many of those now living in tents on a ball field at 22nd Street. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
A deadlocked Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday rejected Peco’s proposal to provide temporary COVID-19 relief for low-income customers, including a onetime $50 bill credit for 113,000 households. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
A developer has paused plans for a 30-unit apartment complex in a West Philadelphia rowhouse neighborhood, the culmination of a year of community opposition that included a recent rally and a petition to city government. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
With Congress negotiating another federal relief bill, it’s worth taking a moment to look at where the first 4.9 million loans went. | From: Technical.ly (Read more.)
Experts from the University of Pennsylvania, Congreso and DVRPC talked about how air quality amplifies inequalities found in Philadelphia’s underrepresented communities. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
La mesa redonda de AL DÍA sobre la calidad del aire tuvo lugar virtualmente el 6 de agosto. | Para: AL DÍA (Read more.)
A new map from District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office puts the relationship between income inequality and gun violence in the city on stark display. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
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