housing-insecurity
For unhoused students, transportation issues mean new schools and unfamiliar classrooms
The lack of transportation means a number of homeless students have been forced to switch enrollment to the school districts where their temporary housing is located, a move long known to be disruptive to their education.
Affordable housing is harder to find, leaving renters asking: Where do we go? | Opinion
Workers have faced stagnant wages for the past 40 years. Yet rent has steadily increased during that time.
Homelessness, unemployment remain issues for transgender Philadelphians
'Being unstable in housing makes a lot of things unsustainable,' one community member said. 'Like just remaining employable, not knowing where your next meals are coming from, not even knowing if you’re going to have clean clothes for the next day.'
States, cities face deadline for proving how quickly they’ve helped renters in crisis
The process for sorting out which states and cities may receive more federal rental aid money and which may see reductions begins Monday.
‘Housing is not infrastructure. Housing is housing,’ Pa.’s Toomey says as mayors plead for help to alleviate housing crisis
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said that he was concerned that affordable housing is becoming out of reach for families.
Despite federal moratorium, eviction rates returning to pre-pandemic levels | Analysis
The CDC’s eviction ban also faces several court challenges; it was most recently struck down by a federal court in Washington, D.C. – though the decision is on hold pending appeals. So its protection may not last very long.
Homeless students, including those in Pa., slipping through the cracks during the pandemic, congressional panel told
Witnesses before a U.S. House panel this week advised lawmakers on how federal relief aid can help bridge educational gaps among children who are experiencing homeless and in foster care during the pandemic.
Philly’s Valley Youth House soups up LGBTQ youth resources; plans to revive Host Homes
LGBTQ young people 18-25 years old are more than twice as likely to experience homelessness than their cishet peers.
In this season of hope, we need it more than ever | Lloyd E. Sheaffer
Let us all, leaders and constituents alike, engage ourselves fully in our holy days. Maybe then hope will thrive.
Dems float eviction moratorium plan: ‘We want people to live and thrive in their homes’
"We really must embrace those living on the margins with a significant amount of humanity and allow them to get back on their feet," state Sen. Vincent Hughes, D-Philadelphia, said.
We say America is a ‘Christian nation.’ Here’s what that would look like if we really meant it | Opinion
There is more than enough to provide food, housing, healthcare, education, and so many other essentials for everyone to live with dignity if we are willing to share — and willing to work to create the political will to make it happen.
Broad Street Ministry helps homeless individuals cast a ballot in upcoming election
A new voter registration program at Broad Street Ministry is helping those experiencing homelessness and others sign-up to vote in the upcoming election.