The Philadelphia real estate market poses stark challenges for first-time home buyers, from low home supply to high competition, price inflation and rising mortgage rates. The popular Philly First Home program will resume giving out grants of up to $10,000 to help first-time buyers with down payment assistance costs, creating new pathways to home ownership. City planners and developers face difficult questions about affordable housing, new home construction, neighborhood preservation, gentrification, and the rising cost of apartment rentals for low- and middle-income residents. This in-depth Philadelphia real estate guide examines the city's housing landscape, policy challenges, community concerns and how strategies such as public land disposition could shape the city's future.
Philadelphia Housing Authority plans to move forward with relocation of Westpark residents over the next 90 days. Where people will go is an open question.
The Philadelphia Housing Authority has taken a step forward in its plan to rebuild its Westpark Apartments complex in West Philly as a mixed-income community by reaching a pre-development agreement with two New York real residential real estate firms.
This edition of Nick News looks at the plight of schoolgirls in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover; then we head to the opening of the Broadway show, Mrs. Doubtfire; and then we hit the streets of Philadelphia with the West Powelton Steppers.
Elsie Wise, civic leader, founder of West Powelton Steppers & Drum Squad, dies at 92 inquirer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from inquirer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.