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Month: September 2022

Latest

Fishtown hired private security. Too bad other neighborhoods can’t do the same.

September 30, 2022

In recent years, Fishtown, long a majority-white, working-class neighborhood, has morphed into one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods. I wondered if private security would be a way to control who can walk its streets and enjoy its many amenities. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)

Housing

City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier tries to preserve existing affordable housing in University City

September 30, 2022

Gauthier’s new legislation, which passed City Council Thursday, seeks to add more affordable housing projects to the original bill’s protections while encouraging more subsidized development. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)

Health

Mobile units in Philadelphia respond to mental health crises

September 30, 2022

Their mission is to diffuse a mental health crisis. They don’t have sirens or flashing lights. Unlike police, they don’t have handcuffs and guns. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)

Community and Family

New theater company produces queer stories written by queer artists

September 28, 2022

The Philadelphia theater scene is about to get even more queer with the introduction of a new nonprofit theater company, The Strides Collective. | From: Philadelphia Gay News (Read more.)

Latest

How The Food Trust is working to create healthy eating programs in Camden

September 27, 2022

For almost 10 years The Food Trust’s Healthy Corner Store Initiative (HCSI) and Heart Smarts Program has been working to transform corner stores, often disparaged as a nutritional wastelands, into community health hubs by combining training, equipment and marketing materials for owners with regular nutrition education and incentives for shoppers. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)

Housing

How to protect Philly residents from investor home buyers

September 27, 2022

During the first two years of the Covid pandemic, homebuyers fought over a limited supply of for-sale housing, often finding out that they were beaten by all-cash corporate offers. Now we wonder: Will these homes ever come back on the market, and what happens to the tenants who live in these new rental properties? | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)

Latest

What is driving the gender wealth gap? Racism, access to choice and financial literacy

September 27, 2022

Philly-based Women’s Way hosted its first Gender Wealth Summit earlier this month to start a conversation about barriers to wealth and how we can challenge them. | From: Technical.ly (Read more.)

Civic and Community Engagement

Five ways to continue showing up for Black businesses

September 26, 2022
Income and Wages

Workers at Philadelphia Museum of Art are on strike, museum is open

September 26, 2022

More than half the roughly 350 workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art went on strike Monday, throwing up picket lines at entrances to the main building on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway and at the entrances to the Perelman Building across Kelly Drive and at the Rodin Museum down the Parkway. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)

Health

Temple University Hospital employees picket over working conditions, low wages

September 26, 2022

Several hundred union nurses, health technicians, dietitians, and other workers staged an informational picket Friday to raise awareness in the community about what they call unsafe working conditions at the city’s largest general acute care hospital. | From: WHYY (Read more.)

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ICYMI

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    July 11, 2023
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    June 20, 2023
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    June 16, 2023
  • Banking On Moms
    June 13, 2023
  • Penn Medicine offering free cancer screenings during the month of June
    June 13, 2023
  • Broken elevators terrify older people and those with disabilities in Philly apartment buildings
    June 13, 2023
  • To buy, or not to buy? Philly’s weak housing market is serving up a mix of emotions
    June 13, 2023
  • The Philly area doesn’t have enough homes available for low- and middle-income buyers
    June 12, 2023
  • Philly nonprofit to help small businesses buy property
    June 8, 2023
  • Some Pa. residents can get free air conditioners this summer
    June 8, 2023

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