Fabric Health, a local healthcare startup founded earlier this year, is working to close community-care gaps and make healthcare more accessible to busy families and those who identify as low-income. They’re doing so by transforming neighborhood laundromats into pseudo-community wellness centers. | From: Philadelphia Magazine (Read more.)
Since March, we have provided support and a public space for those who wanted to share messages to loved ones lost to COVID-19. After witnessing just how meaningful this feels to those who are grieving, we are relaunching With Love to feature the messages of those grieving a friend or family member killed by gun violence. | From: With Love Philly (Read more.)
Trauma is a big contributing factor to Philly’s gun violence crisis among youth who feel they have nothing to lose. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
The event was a partnership between Councilmember Helen Gym and the youth organization New Options More Opportunities, or NoMo, one of five groups to recently receive an anti-violence community grant from the City of Philadelphia. (Read more.)
Driven largely by skyrocketing rates of gun violence, the number of killings this year will be the highest since at least 1960, which is as far back as the Police Department said it kept statistics on homicides. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Muhammad and Samira Sayyid are among the scores of residents in the almost 100-year-old Jefferson apartments in Overbrook who have lost or are preparing to lose their homes as new ownership seeks to turn over the building for as-yet unconfirmed reasons. | From: Metro Philadelphia (Read more.)
Amid an economic recovery that’s slowed after a summer boom, prices have been rising rapidly. The Consumer Price Index, a measure of the average change in prices, showed the cost of goods rising by 6.2% between October 2020 to October 2021, with energy and used car prices going up most. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The infrastructure bill President Joe Biden signed into law last week dramatically increases funding for FEMA grant programs that pay for projects that reduce flood risk — including buying homes in areas like Philadelphia’s flood-prone Eastwick neighborhood. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Philadelphia is about to smash its all-time homicide record of 500, set in 1990. In fact, we will likely get a new record before December even starts. This year, we are on pace for over 550 homicides, and more than 2,300 shooting victims (based on Philadelphia Police Department data as of Nov. 22). | From: WHYY (Read more.)
El supermercado Juniata se inauguró el 1 de diciembre en el norte de Filadelfia. La nueva instalación en el bloque 900 de la calle East Luzerne solía ser una bodega abandonada. | From: Philatinos Radio (Read more.)
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