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WHYY By Tents set up by people experiencing homelessness along Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood on the morning of June 16, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) About 100 people experiencing homeless continue to live on a quarter-mile stretch of Kensington Avenue near McPherson Square and the Allegheny Avenue transit station even as the Kenney administration says they have left the area. Some people were living in tents and makeshift structures, but most were sleeping on the sidewalk Wednesday morning along Kensington Avenue. At the intersection of Kensington and Allegheny, police officers mixed with a smaller number of unhoused people and protesters there to publicly oppose a planned city sweep of the encampments. ....
May 27—Hailed as an "unprecedented" and "miraculous" act to battle homelessness, the federal government is awarding 863 housing vouchers to the Philadelphia Housing Authority by July 1, an allotment worth ....
Philadelphia is testing out a new program that will pay landlords to house LGBTQ young people who have been experiencing homelessness, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Way Home Project, run by the city’s Office of Homeless Services, the emergency housing provider SELF Inc., and the William Way LGBT Community Center, will offer a year of rental support to landlords to house the tenants, totaling around $400,000, according to the Inquirer. Around 40% of unhoused people in the region between the ages of 18 and 26 are LGBTQ, the Inquirer says. Many, the paper notes, also “experience family rejection, discrimination, harassment, and violence, experts on homelessness say.” ....
Updated on April 1, 2021 at 11:45 am NBC Universal, Inc. NBC10 is one of dozens of news organizations producing BROKE in Philly, a collaborative reporting project on solutions to poverty and the city’s push toward economic justice. Follow us at @BrokeInPhilly. Philadelphia workers on Wednesday cleaned up a homeless encampment at an underground PATCO station, but advocates argue it was a short-term solution that doesn’t solve the problem of a lack of affordable housing. Download our mobile app for iOS to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Dozens of people were residing at the Center City station when workers had them move their belongings so they could clear up debris and power wash the floors. ....