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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...
Senator Saval Celebrates the Passage of the Whole-Home Repairs Program
Senator Saval Blasts Republicans for “Cynical” Anti-Abortion Amendment
Senator Nikil Saval Celebrates Creation of Whole-Home Repairs Program with $125 Million in State Budget
Harrisburg, PA − Julio 8, 2022 − Today State Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia) announced a $125-million appropriation in Pennsylvania’s 2022–2023 budget to establish his groundbreaking Whole-Home Repairs Program. He issued the following statement: “Every person has...
Senator Saval Rejects Proposed Book Ban
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...
Declaración del Senador Nikil Saval sobre la sentencia extremista del Tribunal Supremo de EE.UU. en el caso Dobbs V. Jackson Women's Health Organization
Philadelphia, PA Junio 24, 2022 — Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia) released a statement today on the U.S. Supreme Court’s extremist ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning the constitutional right to abortion and marking the largest...
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...
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...