coronavirus
Buscan proporcionar vacuna del coronavirus a hispanos
Puentes de Salud cuenta con un suministro de entre 100 a 200 vacunas semanalmente en sus clínicas de vacunación. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
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Housing
Jumpstart Philly grads win $10 PHA houses
The property came to Howard through a new partnership between Jumpstart and the Philadelphia Housing Authority that has put 10 former PHA properties in the hands of newly trained developers. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Community and Family
This thrift store is offering free clothes and homegoods to Kensington residents
Marie’s Closet is a free-of-charge thrift store that offers clothing, housewares, and linens. It is operated by volunteers and managed by the St. Francis Inn, a religious organization that has been providing meals and additional services in Kensington since 1979. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
Housing
Home appraisals drive America’s racial wealth gap — 95% of Philly’s appraisers are white.
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
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?
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
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
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.)
Health
A partnership brings more jobs to West Philly, more lab assistants to Penn Med
ith an eye toward expanding coronavirus testing in their part of the city, the University of Pennsylvania Health System partnered back in the fall with the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative, a University City District workforce development program. The idea was to offer new opportunities to program graduates looking for jobs as Penn Medicine was looking for workers. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Philadelphia leaders decry inaction on gun violence
The mass shooting occurred in a period of increased gun violence in Philadelphia. Because of that, local government leaders hoped Friday’s news conference at the transportation center would be a springboard to rally support for tougher gun laws. | From: WHYY (Read more.)