Affordable Housing

Climate change poses a threat to public housing units all over the Garden State, as many of them are in flood plains, NBC10 and NJ.com report.

As sea levels rise in the coming decades, towns on rivers, bays, and oceans are at high risk of flooding. NBC10 investigative reporter Claudia Vargas visited Walter J. Buzby Village in Atlantic City to see who is being affected.

NBC10’s Pamela Osborne reports from a former homeless protest camp that was set up along Ridge Avenue. The Philadelphia Housing Authority and the camp reached agreement on getting people who are dealing with homelessness resources to help them. A separate camp along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway remains in place.

The Philadelphia Housing Authority reached a deal with an encampment site on Ridge Avenue that’s spent months protesting homelessness and calling for affordable housing. Protesters remain at another encampment site along the Ben Franklin Parkway however.

After months of negotiations, the Philadelphia Housing Authority reached a deal with a protest camp outside of its headquarters that’s been part of a movement speaking out against homelessness and calling for affordable housing.

Organizers of the Philadelphia protest camps say they’re close to reaching a deal with the city but want at least 50 move-in ready homes. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville explains.

NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports Thursday morning from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway where a homeless protest refuses to leave despite a city eviction notice. Another protest camp along Ridge Avenue also hasn’t budged.

Protesters speaking out against homelessness remain at camps in Philadelphia hours after the city’s deadline passed. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville has the details.

Hours after an eviction deadline passed, protesters who are speaking out against homelessness remain in camps across the city. NBC10’s Aaron Baskerville has the latest details.

A deadline for protesters to leave camps in Philadelphia came and went on Wednesday. Now questions remain regarding what the city will do next. NBC10’s Steven Fisher has the details.

NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports from Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway after a 9 a.m. eviction deadline passed but campers remained. Organizers are still wanting their demands to be met.

Wednesday is deadline day for people camped out on Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Parkway and at two other locations in the city to pack up the homeless camps and leave.

Philadelphia police began blocking lanes of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway ahead of Wednesday’s 9 a.m. deadline for the campers to pack up and leave. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports.

A federal judge is expected to make a decision next week on two Philadelphia protest camps calling for more affordable housing for the homeless following a lengthy standoff with city leaders.

NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports form along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway after Philadelphia’s homeless protest camps didn’t disband despite a Tuesday morning deadline.

Two camps calling for more affordable housing in Philadelphia were given a 9 a.m. Tuesday deadline to pack up, but a lawsuit filed by some campers and two City Council members hoping to resolve the situation stalled the eviction.

NBC10’s Pamela Osborne reports from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway where a homeless protest camp had a 9 a.m. Tuesday deadline to pack up. Demonstrators have set up the tents along the Parkway and outside the Housing Authority building on Ridge Avenue to push for affordable housing.

The preliminary Philadelphia budget approved by city council includes cuts to the Philadelphia police department and adds policing reforms as well. NBC10’s Mitch Blacher breaks down the numbers and gets reaction from the Philadelphia police union.

Police cuts are among the budget proposals Philadelphia City Council is discussing Thursday. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle reports

NBC10’s Pamela Osborne reports on Philadelphia City Council’s preliminary budget plan that calls for $33-million in cuts to police funding. It also calls for around $20 million to be put into a housing trust fund.