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LATEST NEWS
Home sales prices are up 6% from last year in Philly and are selling for 15% more than asking price. With housing inventory in decline, we can expect these figures to keep rising. We need increased resources to counteract these market forces and keep housing affordable!
Redfin report: Sale prices up, inventory down in Philadelphia
philly.com
Redfin released its August housing market report last week, echoing news about sale prices and inventory that is beginning to sound familiar in the region.
“For many of these families, the issue isn’t that they don’t qualify for help. It’s that the help they need isn’t available. That’s because unlike some other parts of the social safety net — such as food stamps — affordable housing is not an entitlement. Once the money appropriated by Congress runs out, the aid stops, no matter how much need there might be. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 3 in 4 renting families that qualify for government housing programs don’t receive any assistance.”
Why So Many Poor Americans Don’t Get Help Paying For Housing
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“In 2013, everything crumbled all at once,” Makera Meng said. She and her husband ran a business — an international grocery store — in South Portland, Maine, where they also owned a hom…
"[Rasheedah] Phillips, an Afrofuturist, started the collaborative art and ethnographic research project 'Community Futurisms: Time & Memory in North Philly.' 'Community Futurisms' aims to document the memories of residents of the Philadelphia neighborhoods Sharswood and Blumberg as they are transformed by a Philadelphia Housing Authority redevelopment project."
"[Philly-based artist Camae] Ayewa sees the project as a concrete way to connect with people experiencing the effects of gentrification. 'It’s important for us to document. I feel like there’s so many different buzzwords in academia, but we really need to hear from the actual people living in these communities.'"
Preserving memories of North Philly - The Temple News
temple-news.com
An alumna uses Afrofuturist principles to preserve memories of area residents.