City Council’s housing committee advanced two bills on Wednesday meant to help Philadelphia renters living in unsafe or unhealthy homes. Here's what to know 👇
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City Council’s housing committee advanced two bills on Wednesday meant to help Philadelphia renters living in unsafe or unhealthy homes. Here's what to know 👇
As part of her effort to build or repair 30,000 homes, Mayor Parker is pushing for more housing near mass transit.
William Way will demolish its LGBT Community Center and construct a building housing its new headquarters, including affordable apartments for seniors.
The William Way Center plans to demolish its old building and replace it with a new, taller and larger one, with room for a few dozen affordable apartments on top: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
Every couple of months or so, someone puts out a piece of bad social science meant to undermine the case for more housing. For Roosevelt Institute, I wrote a blog post responding to the two most recent specimens. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/there-i...
Mayor Parker sent legislation to City Council today that would beef up Philadelphia's transit-oriented development law, tripling the scope of its effect--while still exempting areas zoned for single family www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
Mayor Parker sent legislation to City Council today that would beef up Philadelphia's transit-oriented development law, tripling the scope of its effect--while still exempting areas zoned for single family www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
The repeal of the historic district is unusual, as the city's Historical Commission usually wins such appeals.
jfc
You know regimes across the globe are watching the US do regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Libya, and now Iran, but not North Korea, and coming to conclusions.
I met a guy at a wedding last year who told me he moved to Dubai from Miami because it was “safe.”
I remember thinking there were certain easily imagined, and existential, exceptions to his theory
A political consultant kept working as fraud claims piled up against her. One of the many people who say she owes them money is a Philadelphia congressional candidate.
🔗 www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...
Philadelphia is being considered, along with Boston, Atlanta, Chicago and Denver, to host the summer convention.
hope for the fund's sake that he's not in risk management
www.ft.com/content/7ece...
He will have to explain his thinking in detail if the city appeals
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) unveiled legislation that would raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires.
The revenue from the annual 5 percent wealth tax would be redirected to social spending programs. https://wapo.st/3MSJBiw
This is a big setback for Philly's preservation movement www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
Each Comcast tower individually, to be clear, not together!
A suburban office park in Chester County is getting converted to apartments. Is it a sign of things to come?
The suburbs have been lagging Philadelphia in replacing vacant offices with housing.
This is an analysis very much worth a read: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
📊 NEW Reuters poll:
* 1 in 4 Americans approve of Trump’s attack on Iran
* 55% say Trump has used too much military force in second term
🔗: www.reuters.com/world/us/jus...
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated to lawmakers that the mission’s timing and goals were shaped by the fact that Israel was going to attack with or without the United States”
www.inquirer.com/news/nation-...
The final form of historic preservation is a Gilded Age mansion where 10 apartments used to be: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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This was very fun report and write: www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
"Republicans in Texas, and nationwide, are looking to boost Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) in the closing days of the state’s Democratic Senate primary."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
