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[NEWS] Unexpected partnership brings new housing to Chinatown

June 11, 2013

Chinatown has little room to grow. The Center City neighborhood is boxed in by the Gallery to the south and the Convention Center to the west. Most...

Homeless Planet

June 10, 2013

Erika Slaymaker is Project HOME's Environmental Sustainability Coordinator. She published these reflections on our efforts to be green in a recent...

On the Front Lines: Volunteers and Community Building

June 5, 2013

Here at Project HOME, we have long recognized that the solution to homelessness may begin with a roof and four walls, but must also include...

Good reasons to expand Medicaid

May 31, 2013

Barbara and Steve Gold are long-time friends of Project HOME. Steve was the first president of our Board of Trustees. They co-authored this op-ed on...

[NEWS] Legal plight of the poor is focus of Pa. Senate hearing

May 24, 2013

A Philadelphia family of five lived without a working toilet for a month after the landlord refused to fix it. When the family withheld the rent -...

Amazing Things From Underground

May 15, 2013

Yesterday, we printed an article from our News from HOME newsletter about the Hub of Hope. Today, we print a personal reflection from Kat Delancey...

A Little Heaven From Underground

May 14, 2013

The spring edition of our News from HOME newsletter is hitting mailboxes this week. We are reprinting here one of our front-page stories, about our...

A Mother's Love

May 10, 2013

Lara Weinstein was a second-year student at Jefferson Medical College in 1992 and was frustrated by all the time she was spending in lecture halls...

[NEWS] Wellness Center will serve an area in need

May 10, 2013

Holly McBride did her measure best to keep her children out of the Philadelphia shelter system. For years, she worked hard to find them spare spaces...

[NEWS] North Philadelphia to get $18M health center

May 8, 2013

Project HOME unveiled plans Wednesday to build a $17.8 million, 30,000-square-foot health center in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Philadelphia...

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