Life in the Poorest Big City in America
Philadelphia is America’s poorest big city; one quarter of its residents live in poverty. NBC10 is highlighting the situation in the collaborative reporting project “BROKE in Philly.” […]
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Why 1 in 14 Philly renters faces eviction every year
The rowhouse in Port Richmond looked promising, with three bedrooms, new floors, and a small white porch out front. After having moved three times in 15 months, Linda Watson hoped she’d found some stability there with her 21-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son. […]
The hottest Philly neighborhood no one is talking about
No one could argue that Olney, in upper North Philadelphia, is gentrifying. But that doesn’t mean the neighborhood isn’t revitalizing. […]
‘We want to see growth’ too: Why Tonetta Graham isn’t worried about Philly hipsters moving into her neighborhood
If Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion section gentrifies, Tonetta Graham knows her block is bound to change. She owns a house on 30th Street, right around the corner from her childhood home. […]
He lost his son to gun violence. Now he might lose their Sharswood home.
For the past few years, Greg Bullock’s Sharswood rowhome has been more than just a house. […]
The surprising truth behind the racial dynamics of gentrification in Philly
Debbie Bell knows what it is to be made to feel like an afterthought. She’s a lifelong resident of Point Breeze, a historically low-income African-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia that’s seen a lot of change lately. […]
Over 1,000 adults were homeless and unsheltered in Philadelphia this January
Every January, in the midst of blisteringly low temperatures, the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Homeless Services (OHS) conducts a point-in-time count of Philly’s homeless population. […]
From slums to sleek towers: How Philly became cleaner, safer, and more unequal
Harry Schwartz, 84, remembers when his neighborhood, Society Hill, was one of the poorest parts of Philadelphia. But by the time he moved there as a young lawyer in 1969, things had changed. City planners had fixed up crowded blocks of crumbling old houses and razed a congested, old wholesale produce market to make way for majestic modernist towers. […]
Homeless in Philadelphia: Overcrowded shelters, lack of affordable housing hit those with disabilities even harder
After Leola Howell and her 4-year-old daughter became homeless last May, they stayed on Howell’s friends’ couches for eight months, fruitlessly looking for a subsidized accessible housing unit of their own. […]