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Affordable Housing

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Clarke Wants $100 Million to Fund Housing Repairs

Council President Darrell Clarke will introduce legislation on Thursday to expand a variety of city programs aimed at housing repair and preservation. This would be paid for […]

Property

Why Philly Has Become a Millennial Magnet

If you’ve been paying attention to the articles that have been popping up here of late, you may note a common theme running through several […]

Property

Owning Is Even Cheaper Than Renting Now, Report Says

Affordable rowhomes in West Philadelphia. | Google Streetview It’s long been a truism that for comparable housing, owning is cheaper than renting if you can […]

Property

WATCH: The Blumberg Towers Demolition This Weekend

Video | Philadelphia Housing Authority Now that two of the three Norman Blumberg Apartments towers have returned to the dust from whence they rose, with […]

Property

Is the Rent Here Too Damn High?

The good news is, more new apartments are being built now in Philadelphia. The bad news is, there are even more would-be renters chasing them. […]

Property

Affordable Housing Coalition Proposes Fee on Developers

The real estate market in Philadelphia is obviously doing well right now. It seems like every week we’re writing about a new apartment high-rise that […]

Property

Philly Ranks 12th Nationwide for Affordability

How much do you need to make a year to be able to afford the median-priced home in the Philadelphia market? According to mortgage site […]

Property

Vacant Properties in Point Breeze To Become Affordable Housing

The trend of socially conscious development continued this week, as the transferral of two Point Breeze properties to the Women’s Community Revitalization Project (WCRP) was approved by the Philadelphia […]

Property

Affordable Housing Complex for Artists Breaks Ground in West Philly

West Philly is about to get another apartment complex, but this time it’s not geared toward student foodies or young professionals with money to burn. […]

Property

NKCDC Kicks Off Renewal of Kensington’s Withering Orinoka Mills

Kensington residents and veteran Market-Frankford Line commuters who continue on past Huntingdon know well the blighted and tagged hulk standing just off Somerset Station at the corner of East Somerset […]

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Orinoka Civic House to Break Ground in October

The New Kensington Development Corporation (NKCDC) announced today that their ambitious revitalization project at the former Orinoka Mills, a dilapidated 19th century textile mill site at East […]

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Op-Ed: Why the So-Called “Affordable Housing Industrial-Complex” Is Actually a Good Thing

(Editor’s note: This op-ed is in response to a column from a Citified insider. The author, Rick Sauer, is executive director of the Philadelphia Association of Community […]

Citified

Slowing Gentrification By Building Up

According to a recent story in Governing, the city of Miami might have found an interesting deterrent against gentrification: Height restrictions on development. Not the creation […]

Citified

Best Way to Help Homeless Families? Give Them Homes

Each year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development conducts a “Point-in-Time” count of the homeless population in areas around the country. The count of Philadelphia homeless […]

Citified

Insider: The Affordable Housing Industrial Complex

(Update: For a counter-argument, check out this op-ed.) (Editor’s note: This is an opinion column from a Citified insider. Expect a response to this column […]