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Section 8 Waitlist Openings in April 2025: Where You Can Apply Now
Looking for Section 8 housing? These public housing authorities have waitlists open in April 2025. Find out where to apply ...
With affordable homes already scarce, here’s my plan to preserve Philly’s aging public housing stock
Kelvin Jeremiah, the head of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, outlines the agency's $6.8 billion strategy to preserve and ...
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Philadelphia Housing Authority to preserve and build 20K affordable units under new ‘Opening Doors’ initiative
The housing authority is calling its strategy the “Opening Doors” initiative. It was launched last January but was detailed for the first time Monday — about two months after the Parker administration ...
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PHA to add thousands of new units, increase affordable housing portfolio by more than half
PHA plans to preserve existing units, more than 60% of which are over 70 years old. Opening Doors calls for renovating most of them but demolishing and rebuilding nearly 4,000 units that are ...
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PHA Celebrates Opening of 65 New Affordable Housing Units with Unique Sidewalk Poetry Project in Philadelphia's Sharswood Community
Philadelphia Housing Authority opens 65 new affordable units in Sharswood, featuring the city's first sidewalk poetry as ...
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Mayor unveils $2B ‘largest single investment in housing in Philadelphia history'
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has long promised to provide 30,000 new and preserved housing across the city. And, on Monday, March 24, 2025, Parker shared how she plans to afford to keep that ...
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Move-in Affordability Plan introduced to Philadelphia City Council in effort to ease housing costs
Councilmember Rue Landau announced her "Move-in Affordability Plan" at a news conference on Monday morning. City Council is considering new legislation right now aimed at reducing the financial burden ...