Commissioner Adam Thiel appeared on a panel Tuesday that was convened with fire industry experts after historic deadly fires in Philadelphia and New York. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
On Jan. 21, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office released the names and brief biographies of the members of its new LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee. | Philadelphia Gay News (Read more.)
AL DÍA met with members of the Way Home organization to discuss homelessness among LGBTQ+ people in Philly. | From: AL DÍA News (Read more.)
Philly’s Chinatown started changing before the Rail Park was planned, says Yue Wu, neighborhood planning and project manager at the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation. But since the first phase opened above Chinatown North and the Callowhill neighborhood in 2018, that change has not slowed down. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The executive director declined to address the allegations, but said reforms have been made. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
“Endemic violence in these communities means that the vast majority of those arrested for gun violence have themselves been previously traumatized, often as a witness to previous violent acts; over 80% have previously accessed or been screened for behavioral health services through the City,” according to the report. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Rev. Michelle Anne Simmons is the CEO of Why Not Prosper, a nonprofit in Philadelphia that provides transitional housing for formerly incarcerated women. She was desperate when the heater broke in one of their housing locations and ten women were left in the cold Philly winter in early 2019. | From: Next City (Read more.)
After two shooting deaths near the Temple University campus in the last three weeks, a group of students, parents, and community members rallied on Monday to call on the city to beef up security at the school. But at a forum hours later, some students questioned whether overpolicing would damage Temple’s relationship with the surrounding neighborhoods. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
The men make between 19 and 51 cents an hour working a range of jobs — some in the prison infirmary, the library, or food service; two of them work for the Mural Arts program. At those wages, that means it took the men thousands of working hours combined to come up with the cash. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Twice a week, the truck, painted in soothing pastel colors, travels through Philadelphia neighborhoods dispensing free toiletries — and a dose of kindness. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
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