Housing
Here’s How Philadelphia’s First Guaranteed Income Program Is Going
“The pilot program provides 300 households with payments for 30 months.” From: Next City (Read more.)
Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA)
Housing
PHA’s Housing Choice Voucher Waiting List Lottery Site Can’t Keep Up With Demand
“The Philadelphia Housing Authority opened its Housing Choice Voucher program for the first time in more than 12 years on Jan. 23, 2023. Applications will be taken for two weeks both on the PHA website or by calling, (215) 999-3102, until Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023 at 5:59 p.m.” From: NBC10 (Read more.)
Housing
Loophole Allows Hundreds of Families to Skip Philly’s Housing Waiting List
The NBC10 Investigators found that since 2017, more than 700 families have been able to get Section 8 housing in Philly using a loophole in the federal housing system– and delaying the housing of Philly residents who have waited years for the same opportunity. From: NBC10 Philadelphia (Read more.)
Housing
Multiple families lived in the apartment where 12 died. Philly’s lack of affordable housing points to why.
At least 14 people lived in the Fairmount apartment consumed by fire. “Who makes a choice to be in that type of situation?” a tenant advocate said. “They did what they had to do, you know?” | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Housing
Jumpstart Philly grads win $10 PHA houses
The property came to Howard through a new partnership between Jumpstart and the Philadelphia Housing Authority that has put 10 former PHA properties in the hands of newly trained developers. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
En Español
240 hogares asequibles para combatir la crisis de vivienda en Filadelfia
La concejala María Quiñones Sánchez anunció ayer esta apuesta para evitar la gentrificación, que afecta sobre todo a las comunidades puertorriqueñas. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Housing
Philly encampment activists to rehab PHA homes
Nine PHA houses in Strawberry Mansion are now at the center of an agreement brokered earlier this month between housing authority officials and the OccupyPHA housing advocates who set up protest encampments recently cleared from Ridge Avenue and Benjamin Franklin Parkway. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Housing
Parkway encampment residents leaving
Only about a dozen empty tents remained as the final trickle of residents, who had lived along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway since early June, packed up their belongings in black plastic tubs to be carted off to new homes. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
PHA raid of North Philly Peace Park has happy ending
After the Philadelphia Housing Authority admitted that a Monday morning raid of two properties used by the North Philly Peace Park was a mistake, organizers now have the legal right to restore the buildings after nearly a year of trying to acquire them. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Federal judge clears city to remove homeless encampments on Ben Franklin Parkway, Ridge Ave.
Activists formed the three camps following unrest over the police killing of George Floyd in late June. Now home to more than 100 residents, the camps have been the site of conflict between city officials and organizers, some of whom erected barricades following notices that the city would clear the camps last week.| From: WHYY (Read more.)