Fairmount fire: City officials offer policy change
Sometimes disasters lead to change. But in Philadelphia, officials failed to take steps after the last deadly group home fire.
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Sometimes disasters lead to change. But in Philadelphia, officials failed to take steps after the last deadly group home fire.
The tragedies in Philadelphia and the Bronx have put a spotlight back on the country’s deplorable housing market for the poorest families. Proposals to fix and fund the problem are on the table.
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WHYY By Student-Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia's project proposal for the Mill Creek Aspen Street Tiny Village. (Courtesy of SREHUP) Updated at 6:11 p.m. Stephanie Sena, arguably one of the city’s most animated housing advocates, has spent years trying to build tiny houses in Philadelphia. Now, at the end of an otherwise grim 2020, the Villanova poverty and policy professor appears to have gotten the city backing she needs to see one of her visions realized. Sena and her organization, Student-Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia, is one of the would-be developers who respo...