Menciones en los medios de comunicación
Better parks, cleaner rivers: How Pa. will spend a ‘generational’ $765 million for conservation and environmental programs
Under the state budget passed last week, Pennsylvania’s conservation programs will receive a one-time, pandemic-related federal booster shot of $765 million for state parks, forests, streams, open space, farms, and home energy efficiency — an amount one environmental...
Pa. schools, businesses, and housing efforts are among the winners in this year’s state budget
With a $45 billion state budget finally implemented, Pennsylvania schools, businesses and housing projects are the big winners. Each is slated to receive substantially more funding in the new fiscal year. State lawmakers last week unveiled a plan to spend an...
What legislation did Gov. Tom Wolf approve or veto during budget season?
As leaders in the Pennsylvania General Assembly negotiated the 2022-23 budget in recent weeks, the House and Senate sent a slate of controversial and potentially transformative stand-alone legislation to Gov. Tom Wolf’s desk. On Viernes, Wolf signed the roughly $45...
How three new housing policies could help Philadelphians with home repairs and affordability
Three new housing policies by state and city officials aim to preserve and grow the amount of housing that residents can afford. Included in the Pennsylvania budget is $125 million for home repairs and weatherization intended to preserve the state’s aging housing...
Nikil Saval leads bipartisan effort, secures $125 million for Whole-Home Repairs Act
Residents of Pennsylvania homeowners will experience financial relief after State Senator Nikil Saval’s Whole Home Repairs Act was included last week as part of the new state budget. It allocates $125 million in funding for home repairs and weatherization costs across...
Briefs: Julio 12, 2022
Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon announced that Philadelphia International Airport is being granted $24 million from the Federal Aviation Administration through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that she voted to pass last fall. The competitive grant for...
Pa. budget allots $375 million in federal funding to housing programs
Several programs to aid homeowners and landlords are part of the $45 billion state budget passed Viernes. Pennsylvania will put $375 million in unspent money from the federal American Rescue Plan toward the three housing programs. Low-income housing projects which are...
Pa. lawmakers agree to boost education funding, spend billions in remaining stimulus money as part of budget
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lawmakers have sent Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf a $45.2 billion spending plan that boosts education spending by more than $1 billion, creates a new child care tax credit, and squirrels away money for a rainy day. The wide-reaching budget,...
Here’s how Pennsylvania plans to spend its billions in federal stimulus money (full list)
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lawmakers have agreed on a plan to use $2.2 billion in remaining federal stimulus money from the pandemic on housing, conservation, and child care programs. The agreement came as the state finalized a $45.2 billion budget a week...
In a rare bipartisan move, the Pa. legislature approves a new home repair assistance program
Pennsylvanians will soon be able to get state assistance to pay for home repairs, thanks to a new program that lawmakers passed Viernes as part of the state budget. The program represents an unusual victory for progressive Democrats, and is a rare example of...
Here’s how Pa.’s advocacy community reacted to the 2022-23 state budget
Pennsylvania lawmakers have finally approved a $45.2 billion spending plan, sending it to Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf for his signature. The state House passed the budget bill in a 180-20 vote on Jueves — a week past its initial deadline. The state Senate followed with...
Legislators applaud budget’s investment in housing
HARRISBURG, Julio 8 – Citing the drastic need to improve housing in communities around Pennsylvania and keep families in their homes, a group of legislators, including state Sen. Nikil Saval, D-Phila.; state Reps. Jordan Harris, House Democratic Whip, D-Phila.; Sara...
Meeting the Moment in Philadelphia
AT THE STARBUCKS on Philadelphia’s 12th and Walnut Streets, the supportive sticky notes from customers were gone, flyers urging staff to “Please Vote and VOTE NO!” were being handed out, and a plastic bag of union pins had mysteriously disappeared. That’s how Kat...
Here’s How We Can Making Housing More Affordable
L ast month, President Biden released the Housing Supply Action Plan to “to ease the burden of housing costs over time, by boosting the supply of quality housing in every community.” The plan aims to close the nation’s housing shortfall in five years through the...
Pa. Senate committee creates bipartisan plan to combat blight statewide
A proposal to use part of the state’s approximate $5 billion budget surplus to fund a program against statewide blight received rare bipartisan support in Harrisburg on Lunes. The bill creating a Whole-Home Repairs and Homeownership Affordability Fund to provide...
Bipartisan Pa. legislation would provide home repair grants, loans for homeowners, small landlords
Bipartisan legislation pending in Harrisburg could help homeowners and small landlords across Pennsylvania make much-needed repairs to their properties. The bill would establish the Whole-Home Repairs program and provide grants of up to $50,000 to homeowners, as well...
Pa. House Republicans initiate impeachment proceedings against Philadelphia DA
Four House Republicans have initiated impeachment proceedings against Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, saying he has shown an “absolute and willful dereliction of duty” that has contributed to lives lost and property destroyed in the state’s largest city....
The 2022 Philadelphia Forty Under 40
In this year’s edition of City & State’s Forty Under 40, you may notice a few motifs: For one, each honoree is from Philadelphia and there are a number of immigrants and first-generation Americans. Spending time working for the City of Philadelphia is a line on many...
Pa. House Republicans initiate impeachment proceedings against Philadelphia DA
our House Republicans have initiated impeachment proceedings against Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, saying he has shown an “absolute and willful dereliction of duty” that has contributed to lives lost and property destroyed in the state’s largest city....
Second-graders rally against climate change
Second-grade students from Fanny Jackson Coppin School carried signs and marched the streets on Junio 8 to raise awareness for the dangers of climate change. “We want fossil fuels to go away,” said second-grade student Rohith Palaiyanur. “The heat gets trapped on the...
Many state homeowners can’t afford key repairs
Almost half of Pennsylvania voters who are homeowners, including many in Philadelphia, couldn’t afford to pay for critical repairs on their homes if they needed them, according to a poll by Data for Progress of the People’s Action Institute. The issue of home repairs...
Pennsylvania is sitting on billions in stimulus money. Lawmakers may actually agree on a plan to spend some of it.
HARRISBURG — As the Junio 30 deadline for the Pennsylvania legislature to pass a new budget approaches, support for spending some of the state’s billions in remaining stimulus money and surplus tax revenue is gaining bipartisan traction. Discussions are preliminary,...
Kenyatta Johnson stands firm on Washington Avenue plan
Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson has shown no indication of reversing course and supporting a city plan to repave Washington Avenue with fewer lanes — leaving the future of the South Philadelphia thoroughfare in jeopardy. Johnson is not alone. Community leaders,...
Philly Pride march captures the politics of the moment
Nearly three years since its last in-person Pride celebration and knee deep in the nationwide legislative attacks on the LGBTQ community, Philadelphia Pride began this year with a march. Participants gathered Junio 5 in front of the Constitution Center at 5th and Arch...
After the South Street shooting, frustration mounts over the Pennsylvania law that keeps Philly from passing its own gun control
Calls for new laws to prevent gun violence, spurred nationwide in recent weeks by mass shootings, echoed in Philadelphia following Sábado’s mass shooting on South Street. But a state law prohibits the city from passing gun-control measures. The preemption law, which...
Organizations, including the Bicycle Coalition of Philadelphia, call on Mayor Kenney to revamp Washington Ave.
Double parking, potholes, and car accidents are what makes up Washington Avenue in South Philly right now. Residents are calling on public officials to change that concept. On Jueves, Junio 2, 2022, local residents and group organizations in South Philadelphia called...
Chaos and terror on South Street: Multiple gunmen fired into crowds on ‘a dark day for Philadelphia’
Multiple gunmen shot into crowds gathered on South Street late Sábado night, killing three people, wounding 11, and bringing chaos and terror to one of Philadelphia’s most popular nightlife districts. Police were still piecing together on Domingo what had happened...
Advocates Call For AAPI Curriculum In Pennsylvania Classrooms
HARRISBURG, PA — Advocates from the Asian American and Pacific Islander community descended upon the Pennsylvania capitol recently to call for greater AAPI education in schools as a counter to a growing rise in anti-Asian sentiment in the nation. The Pennsylvania...
Senator Nikil Saval to Hold Rally Calling for Passage of Bipartisan Whole-Home Repairs Act
Philadelphia, PA − Mayo 24, 2022 − Today, Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia County) held a rally attended by more than 200 housing and energy advocates, community leaders, Pennsylvania residents, and Democrat and Republican legislators from the General Assembly to...
Fight blight with Whole Home Repairs | Editorial
Among Pennsylvania’s many distinctions, the commonwealth has one of the nation’s oldest housing stocks — half of all homes in the state were built before 1959. These old buildings are brimming with architectural character, but redbrick rowhomes and majestic Victorians...
Los votantes de todos los partidos de Pensilvania apoyan las inversiones públicas para reparar viviendas
Pensilvania tiene algunas de las viviendas más antiguas del país. Durante años, los daños meteorológicos, la falta de fiabilidad de la calefacción y las graves deficiencias estructurales han provocado inseguridad en la vivienda y costosas reparaciones. Una nueva encuesta de Data for Progress y People's Action muestra...
Philly officials support GOP bike lane protection bill
Bell-ringing in Philadelphia Viernes morning wasn’t coming from Citizen’s Bank Park or the Constitution Center but from a peloton riding into Dilworth Park outside City Hall. Several city and state officials rode into a press conference with the Bicycle Coalition of...
Lawmakers call for teaching more AAPI history in schools
HARRISBURG, Pa. — As a child growing up in the Philly suburbs, Serena Nguyễn was ashamed of her last name. “It was a strange, unfamiliar, hard-to-pronounce sound connecting me to a land distant in time and space. It seemed un-American,” said Nguyễn, who has since...
El legislador que impulsa un fondo estatal de ayuda a la reparación de viviendas
Una propuesta de ley en Pensilvania utilizaría el poder y el presupuesto del gobierno estatal para ayudar a los propietarios de viviendas y a los pequeños arrendadores a realizar reparaciones críticas en sus propiedades, en un esfuerzo por abordar los crecientes retos de la asequibilidad de la vivienda y el cambio climático....
Philly spent a decade reconnecting neighborhoods to the waterfront. Widening I-95 is repeating past mistakes.
Over the last decade, something miraculous has been happening in the central Philadelphia neighborhoods that border the Great Wall of I-95. Guided by a smart master plan, the agency that manages the Delaware waterfront has helped transform its old piers and industrial...
Hughes, Fiedler, Rally with Educators for Full School Funding
PHILADELPHIA, PA — With Pennsylvania sitting on more than $8 billion in excess revenue, and a dismal national ranking for school equity, state Sen. Vincent Hughes and Rep. Elizabeth Fiedler held a pre-budget school funding rally in South Philadelphia on Viernes to call...
Where Have All the Liberals Gone?
Last week, I had the surreal experience of reading my way through a stack of high-toned books about liberalism when news trickled out that a conservative majority on the Supreme Court was preparing to overturn Roe v. Wade. Legal scholars were swift to denounce what...
How have Philly and PA public officials reacted to the Roe v. Wade leak?
On Lunes, Mayo 2, Politico leaked a draft of the U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion, which indicated that the nation’s highest court will most likely vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling which guaranteed the right to abortion in the nation for...
Buscar formas de luchar juntos contra el tizón
Imagínese lo siguiente: ha trabajado incansablemente durante años para poder comprar una casa antigua. Ha dedicado incontables horas y miles de dólares a mejorarla. Ese era el sueño de mis padres en Tamaqua en 1965 cuando compraron por primera vez una "media doble" de 1917 y mi...
Politics and Civic Engagement
Asian American Studies Scholar and host Rob Buscher discusses AAPI involvement in local politics and civic engagement with panelists Nina Ahmad, Nikil Saval, and Helen Gym. Historically, Asian Americans have faced barriers in becoming politically active. What are the...