Housing
A hotter topic: Building heat resilience into multifamily housing
Affordable multifamily housing is the most vulnerable building sector when it comes to extreme circumstances, and its residents have fewer resources. (Read more.)
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SEPTA’s new regional rail turnstile design keeps Key card users in and the city’s homeless population out
Given the short timeline between the construction of the Hub of Hope and then the turnstiles, it puts into question if SEPTA’s investment in the service station was in an effort to save face for the negative ramifications the turnstiles may have on the city’s homeless community. (Read more.)
Housing
To prevent chronic homelessness, Philly nonprofit offers some young adults more than shelter
Jerome Maynard’s two-bedroom apartment in Roxborough is a special place — not because of the beige carpeting and white walls, but simply because it’s his. (Read more.)
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How Benefits Data Trust will use $4 million to increase food security across the U.S.
The Center City-based benefits access nonprofit received a grant from the Walmart Foundation to encourage SNAP enrollment based on data. (Read more.)
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This Week at Broke in Philly: 08.17.18
• At Temple, campus food pantry becomes summer lifeline for hungry students | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Broke in Philly: Financial Struggles for 1st Generation College Students | From NBC10/Telemundo62
• ‘A perfect circle of helping’: 3 nonprofits join forces to feed people in Kensington | From: Billy Penn
• Home visits from education experts are improving outcomes for Philly kids in poverty | From: Generocity
• Anti-poverty crusaders fight to cut taxes for mobile-home owners | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Comcast’s $10 internet for low-income Americans is exploding in popularity | From: Billy Penn
• Broke in Philly: From Homeless to Business Owner | From: NBC10/Telemundo61
• Philly Playstreets provide haven amid poverty, blight, and drugs | From: Philadelphia Media Network (Read more.)
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Philly Playstreets provide haven amid poverty, blight, and drugs
The 2400 block of North Bouvier Street is one of 410 Playstreets this summer. It’s a little-known program that has spread over decades through word of mouth, mostly in neighborhoods where children don’t have the means to go to summer camp. The program also provide free lunches and snacks to the children on the participating blocks. (Read more.)
Finance
Anti-poverty crusaders fight to cut taxes for mobile-home owners
Low-income people who live in mobile homes in the Honey Brook area have been getting extra help that could allow them to stop overpaying property taxes. (Read more.)
Housing
Comcast’s $10 internet for low-income Americans is exploding in popularity
Nearly 200,000 Philadelphians take advantage of Internet Essentials, along with six million users nationwide. (Read more.)
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At Temple, campus food pantry becomes summer lifeline for hungry students
Hundreds of hungry and food insecure college students turned up to campus food pantries this summer to supplement where financial aid, meal plans and part-time jobs fell short.
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This Week at Broke in Philly: 08.10.18
• Broke in Philly launches #HighCost of Being Broke series
• The high cost of being broke: Diapers | From: WHYY
• Financial empowerment centers help city residents improve their fiscal health | From: Next City
• The high cost of being broke: Dental care | From: WHYY
• High cost of being broke: Cell phones are crazy expensive | From: Billy Penn
• The high cost of being broke: Transportation | From: WHYY
• The high cost of being broke: Fighting ‘quiet hunger’ in every Philadelphia zip code | From: NBC10/Telemundo62
• How to find low-cost bank accounts in Philly | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Broke in Philly: Residents struggle to afford the rising cost of food | From: NBC10/Telemundo62
• Power Moves: Cassie Haynes left city government to co-lead Resolve Philadelphia | From: Generocity (Read more.)