From Philadelphia Media Network: Here, in a city of 1.5 million people where the poverty rate is 26 percent, the highest among the country’s biggest cities, there are nearly 400,000 residents living in poverty. (Read more.)
From Philadelphia Media Network: A 2017 study by researchers at the University of Memphis found that 64 percent of African American children, 45 percent of Hispanic children, and 40 percent of Caucasian children in the United States have no or low swimming ability, putting them at risk for drowning. (Read more.)
• Old homes, high poverty make Philadelphia housing less than affordable for some | From: PlanPhilly
• A low-cost way to reduce depression: renovate vacant lots | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• More city money for anti-eviction efforts brings expanded access to legal services for tenants | From: PlanPhilly
• States have a role to play on war on poverty (which, by the way, isn’t over) | Editorial | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Ideas we should steal: The Citizens Project | From: The Philadelphia Citizen
• Homeless teens in Philly tap rough memories to help others understand their lives | From: Philadelphia Media Network
• Farm for the City: Growing an urban garden near City Hall to fight food insecurity | From: Generocity
• What Pittsburgh can learn from Philadelphia’s bold media collaborations | From: nextpittsburgh.com
• Transmit/Transform: 2 Part Community Event (Read more.)
From Generocity: The venture philanthropy firm announced a $600,000 investment in Boston-based financial services nonprofit Compass Working Capital, in partnership with Clarifi and the Philadelphia Housing Authority. (Read more.)
From Philadelphia Media Network: Inflation hit 2.9 percent for the 12-month period ending in June as costs for gasoline, housing, and food kept growing. At the same time, wages grew by less than 3 percent, hardly making up for increased costs for those items. (Read more.)
From PlanPhilly: But in Philadelphia, it’s not just a shortage of affordable housing that’s causing the crunch. Instead, poor-quality houses and an unusually high poverty rate — about 400,000 Philadelphians are living in poverty — tilt the equation so that demand far outstrips supply here, making affordable homes hard to obtain and difficult to manage. (Read more.)
From NEXTpittsburgh: The partners include the city’s daily newspapers, public radio station WHYY, Billy Penn, a four-year-old media startup, the Philadelphia Tribune, the nation’s longest-running African American newspaper, community news outlets and two academic institutions — Temple University and Allentown, PA’s Muhlenberg College. (Read more.)
From Generocity: Motivated to highlight food insecurity and the necessity of community gardens, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) and Broad Street Ministry (BSM) partnered and were awarded a $300,000 grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage last year. (Read more.)
From PlanPhilly: During city budget negotiations in the spring, it looked as if a line item to help tenants facing eviction might be in peril. But in the final deal, funding for landlord-tenant court reforms actually was boosted to $850,000, from $500,000. (Read more.)
From The Philadelphia Citizen: Nationally one in five homeless people had a serious mental illness, and the same number had a substance abuse problem, and in Philly, drug overdose is the number one cause of death among homeless people. These issues are, as may be expected, intertwined, and have created a need for programs like the Citizens Project in large cities across the country. (Read more.)
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