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May 27—Hailed as an "unprecedented" and "miraculous" act to battle homelessness, the federal government is awarding 863 housing vouchers to the Philadelphia Housing Authority by July 1, an allotment worth
Inaugural Projects for Progress recipients announced Awardees include three Penn teams that will help address health care, education, and environmental justice, respectively, in Philadelphia.
The University announced Friday its inaugural Projects for Progress prize recipients, which include three teams of Penn students, faculty, and staff. The teams, awarded up to $100,000 each to support their initiatives, all enhance and promote equity and inclusion in Philadelphia by addressing health care, education, and environmental justice, respectively.
Established by President Amy Gutmannlast summer, and managed by the new Office of Social Equity & Community, Projects for Progress are meant to build on Penn’s longstanding commitment to social justice and civic engagement in Philadelphia.
At last, Destiny Jackson, then 13, said to herself.
After the abuse and the torment she d endured over time, someone had called representatives from Philadelphia s Department of Human Services into her family s West Philadelphia home.
Now they ll see what I ve been through, she believed. Now I ll get out.
But it didn t happen. The house looked fine, said Jackson, now 18. And when the house looks fine, DHS thinks everything is fine. But sometimes people can put on a show and make it all seem all right. DHS didn t remove me from the home. So, I ran away.
After that, Jackson couch-surfed in the homes of friends and family, lived in foster care or group homes, and spent three years in a homeless shelter. Through it all, with the help of caring others, she used the sheer force of her considerable will and a preternaturally honed self-confidence to grow herself up.