Two dozen residents of North Philadelphia’s Fairhill neighborhood recently gathered in a community hall to play a board game with unusual stakes: a new rec center. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Vouchers and tax-credit housing have increasingly supplanted public housing nationally. But while these arrangements often last for decades, many thousands of units have also seen their affordability restriction expire over the years. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The owner tried to intervene in a recent fight, and got beat up for his troubles. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Lozito is one of 12 artists, all people of color or who identify as LGBTQ, making posters that will be featured in Visit Philadelphia’s Love+Grit Storefronts campaign spotlighting 24 businesses owned by people of color. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Renting a room is an alternative to giving grants. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Nearly 14,000 children in the city are at risk of not getting the credit because their guardians don’t regularly file taxes, according to the IRS estimates from this summer. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Kids face less long-term trauma when they live with kin instead of foster families. Yet despite promising kinship placement models elsewhere and signs of improvement, Philadelphia’s child welfare system still appears biased against families. | From: Next City (Read more.)
Pairing families with social worker and parent advocates to help navigate the system has shown promise. But in Philadelphia, problems persist with racial bias and disregard for families. | From: Next City (Read more.)
Universal Family of Schools is hosting a series of community vaccine clinics beginning Saturday, Nov. 13, in conjunction with Penn Medicine and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Thousands of students across Pennsylvania are being denied their basic right to a quality education because of inadequate and unfairly distributed state funding, plaintiffs argued Friday in Harrisburg at the start of a long-awaited and potentially historic trial. | From: Chalkbeat Philadelphia (Read more.)
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