Affordable Housing
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Brief: Mayor Darrell Clarke Launches Big, Bold Affordable Housing Plan
(Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information from Clarke spokeswoman Jane Roh.) Mayor City Council President Darrell Clarke launches 2,000 unit affordable […]
Are Urban Progressives Hypocrites?
You know the phrase today’s liberal is tomorrow’s conservative? Well, there’s an opinion piece in the right-leaning City Journal which turns that age-old adage on its head. Essentially, the piece is […]