An affordable housing program was meant to help 1,000 middle-class residents buy a house in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Instead, it subsidized the construction and sale of only 140 homes, including several that have been rented out or resold for profit. City officials now say there was little oversight and that an audit of the program should be conducted. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Based on the volume of building permits approved by the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections in 2021, the final figure for the year could balloon to 10,000 — more than triple the average annual total of 3,000 to 4,000 new apartments. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The two-bedroom house in Strawberry Mansion is one of seven vacants the Philadelphia Housing Authority rehabilitated on the 2900 block of Westmont Street under an agreement it reached last October with members of a homeless encampment that occupied a vacant lot in nearby Sharswood, including Nowell. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Philadelphia’s eviction diversion program that gained national attention during the pandemic is set to continue through 2022. | From: NBC10 /Telemundo62 (Read more.)
City Council on Thursday passed a bill that would require affordable units be included in large residential developments in parts of North, West, and Northeast Philadelphia where residents are seeing rents rise. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Muhammad and Samira Sayyid are among the scores of residents in the almost 100-year-old Jefferson apartments in Overbrook who have lost or are preparing to lose their homes as new ownership seeks to turn over the building for as-yet unconfirmed reasons. | From: Metro Philadelphia (Read more.)
Philadelphia City Council on Thursday is expected to pass a bill backers hope will help people avoid the headache and expense of resolving a tangled title by enlisting funeral service providers as educators in the process. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
A bill from Councilmembers María Quiñones-Sánchez and Jamie Gauthier would create specific zones where 20% of all new housing constructions would have to be affordable housing. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Vouchers and tax-credit housing have increasingly supplanted public housing nationally. But while these arrangements often last for decades, many thousands of units have also seen their affordability restriction expire over the years. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Renting a room is an alternative to giving grants. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
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