Affordable Housing

The PHA housing lottery is now open for people to get into low income public housing in Philadelphia. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle has a closer look at what people need to know to try to find their new homes.

NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports on the rush online and in person as the Philadelphia Housing Authority’s Housing Choice Voucher program lottery began Monday.

People in Philadelphia now have the chance to get into a lottery for low-income public housing.

The Philadelphia Housing Authority opened its “housing choice voucher program” for the first time in more than 12 years on Monday.

The NBC10 Investigators look into questionable police data, a housing loophole and the impact of school lockdowns in their “Digging Deeper” special. Watch the entire special here.

The encampment in University City was removed, but the fight continued Monday afternoon as protesters called for affordable housing. NBC10’s Deanna Durante has the story.

NBC10’s Matt DeLucia reports on the protest of the removal of an encampment at a University City housing complex over plans to evict people from affordable housing.

An encampment that was put in place to protest the evictions of residents from affordable housing in a complex in Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood was dismantled Monday morning following a court order.

Nearly 70 low-income families living in Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood will soon have to find a new place to live as the owner plans to sell the property. But the people living there aren’t leaving without a fight. NBC10’s Johnny Archer reports.

An affordable housing initiative in Philadelphia failed to increase Black home ownership in gentrifying neighborhoods, according to an NBC10 analysis of seven years of housing records. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas talked to housing advocates who say they are ready to help Black residents become homeowners.

An affordable housing program created was meant to help 1,000 middle-class residents buy a house in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Instead, it subsidized the construction and sale of about 140 homes. City officials now say there was little oversight and that an audit of the program should be conducted.

Most home buyers who purchased properties through a Philadelphia City Council-created affordable housing program that supported home construction in Black-majority neighbrohoods were white and Asian, according to an NBC10 analysis of the program. NBC10 reporter Claudia Vargas spoke with some of the home buyers and developers to find out what happened to the program.

An affordable housing program created by City Council was meant to help middle-class residents buy homes in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Instead, it subsidized the construction and sale of about 140 homes, according to an analysis by the NBC10 Investigators. City officials told NBC10 reporter Claudia Vargas there was little oversight and that an audit of the program should be conducted.