Community organizer Mamie Nichols’ daughter spoke these words, “it’s all just hard work at the core”, in tribute to her mother at the groundbreaking of the affordable townhomes development in…
Category: Development
New supportive housing opens in Kensington
Project HOME's development of the Maguire Residences braved the Coronavirus to open in 2020. Like many other affordable housing developments in process in the spring of 2020, the Maguire Residences…
Important Changes to HUD’s Section 3 Provision
What is Section 3? Section 3 is a provision of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Act of 1968 that is intended to foster local economic development, neighborhood economic improvement,…
Community Land Trusts as a Mechanism for Change
Regional Housing Legal Services attorneys have begun providing the legal services necessary to help community organizations set up Community Land Trusts with the goal of preserving housing affordability, while also…
Welcome home! Neighborhood Revitalization in Sharswood.
This week in Philadelphia, the 224th and 225th families moved into their new homes at Oxford Green in the Sharswood/Blumberg neighborhood in North Philadelphia. RHLS's Senior Counsel Judy Berkman has…