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Month: February 2021

Housing

Home appraisals drive America’s racial wealth gap — 95% of Philly’s appraisers are white.

February 28, 2021

Racial bias in the appraisal industry — an industry that is dominated by white people — is an understudied contributor to historical and ongoing segregation and wealth disparities in Philadelphia and across the United States. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)

Community and Family

Philadelphia Would Get $1.3 Billion in Newest Federal COVID-19 Relief Bill

February 28, 2021

U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, who serves on the House Budget Committee, told NBC10 that the money would support the region, including the ailing transit system and the city’s government services. | From: NBC10 (Read more.)

Education

What did ‘A Better Chicago’ do for poverty that could work in Philadelphia?

February 28, 2021

Chicago is a well-off town with a poverty problem. Philadelphia is poor. But The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia, Pew’s Fund for Health and Human Services and GreenLight Fund Philadelphia are already employing parallel strategies. | From: Generocity (Read more.)

Housing

Los campamentos de personas sin hogar son un síntoma de la necesidad de un cambio masivo, sólo hay que preguntar en Filadelfia

February 28, 2021

Liz Hersh, Directora de servicios para personas sin hogar de la ciudad, dice que no hay suficientes lugares y espacios en la ciudad donde la gente pueda vivir. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)

Housing

Homeless encampments are a symptom of a housing system in need of massive change, just ask Philadelphia

February 28, 2021

The PATCO station tents highlight Philadelphia’s housing problem. Hersh sees the issue in very simple terms: there are just not enough places for people to live. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)

Civic and Community Engagement

Philly Councilmembers propose $1M for the arts

February 26, 2021

Councilmembers Isaiah Thomas and Katherine Gilmore Richardson plan to introduce an ordinance to transfer $1.3 million from the city’s special New Normal Budget into the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy to be distributed as grants. | From: WHYY (Read more.)

coronavirus

Philly holds first city-run mass COVID vaccination clinic

February 26, 2021

Once the clinics are at full operating capacity, the city plans to inoculate 500 people per day open at each location, twice a week. At full capacity, the clinics should be processing 3,000 residents a week. | From: WHYY (Read more.)

Community and Family

This new nonprofit wants to help high school students build financial literacy

February 26, 2021

Philadelphia Financial Scholars (PFS) launched this week to help high school students develop “wealth-building tools” via lessons on budgeting and saving, as well as building a business plan. | From: Technical.ly (Read more.)

Housing

Philly, PATCO respond to Center City transit station encampment with social service

February 26, 2021

People set up tents inside the underground concourse at 12th and Locust streets seeking warmth and shelter during the recent snow emergency and ongoing cold snap. But the encampment can’t be blamed on the weather, said Liz Hersh, Director of Homeless Services at the city’s Office of Homeless Services. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)

Housing

Philly Housing Market Is ‘White Hot’: Is Another Real Estate Bubble Looming?

February 26, 2021

One of the city’s top real estate analysts says he’s never seen the increases in home sale prices for some neighborhoods as his newest report shows. But the high numbers are concerning for a few reasons. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)

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ICYMI

  • This thrift store is offering free clothes and homegoods to Kensington residents
    March 2, 2021
  • Home appraisals drive America’s racial wealth gap — 95% of Philly’s appraisers are white.
    February 28, 2021
  • Philadelphia Would Get $1.3 Billion in Newest Federal COVID-19 Relief Bill
    February 28, 2021
  • What did ‘A Better Chicago’ do for poverty that could work in Philadelphia?
    February 28, 2021
  • Los campamentos de personas sin hogar son un síntoma de la necesidad de un cambio masivo, sólo hay que preguntar en Filadelfia
    February 28, 2021
  • Homeless encampments are a symptom of a housing system in need of massive change, just ask Philadelphia
    February 28, 2021
  • Philly Councilmembers propose $1M for the arts
    February 26, 2021
  • Philly holds first city-run mass COVID vaccination clinic
    February 26, 2021
  • This new nonprofit wants to help high school students build financial literacy
    February 26, 2021
  • Philly, PATCO respond to Center City transit station encampment with social service
    February 26, 2021

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