Citing funding constraints, Philadelphia officials will move the residents of two COVID-19 hotels — temporary housing for seniors or people with serious medical issues that put them at high risk for severe illness — elsewhere in the city in the coming days. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
We’ve rounded up more than a handful of shelters and organizations that welcome cold weather donations, including scarves, hats, blankets, gloves, and socks. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Now, about 200 residents are being moved from the hotel Dec. 15 to unspecified other sites while case managers work to move them into long-term affordable housing. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Anyone who hasn’t found a place to live after Dec. 15 will be offered temporary shelter, say officials, who’ve successfully placed 50 people so far. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
As temperatures drop, housing groups across the commonwealth are faced with a double dilemma: pandemic safety rules have made shelter space scarcer, and the COVID-19 economy could lead to a wave of evictions in the dead of winter as a federal moratorium expires. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
According to the terms of the agreement, the city and the Philadelphia Housing Authority have vowed to transfer 50 vacant properties into a community land trust established by encampment residents, as well as arrange for other means of providing affordable housing. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
After months of public pressure to disband two homeless encampments in Philadelphia, housing activists say they have struck a tentative deal with city officials to relocate those living in tents to 50 vacant, city-owned properties. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The Kenney administration, last week, posted public notice of plans to remove the encampments, but these efforts were stalled by a federal lawsuit filed on Aug.18 that accused the city of violating the residents’ constitutional right to protest. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
In a ruling made on Tuesday, U.S. Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Eduardo C. Robreno said the city could disband the camps on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Ridge Avenue outside the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s North Philadelphia headquarters and at the Azalea Garden near the Philadelphia Museum of Art. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
The volunteer peanut butter and jelly brigade is helping to feed thousands of people throughout the region during the pandemic. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
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