Data: City of Philadelphia and U.S. Housing and Urban Development; Chart: Axios Visuals As Philadelphia grapples with a lack of affordable housing and an ongoing opioid crisis, homelessness is ...

Philadelphia has thousands of homeless residents living in shelters and on the streets. Jeff Fusco/The Conversation U.S., CC BY-SA Seeing a person huddled under a makeshift roof of tarps or curled up ...

A Philadelphia barber is getting national recognition for his efforts to provide free haircuts to people in need.

There is Something Poetic and Painful About Returning Home After Decades Away. *Philadelphia—my birthplace, my identity-maker, my forever hometown—always grabs me by the spirit the moment my feet hit ...

Visitors gather after a news conference in front of Project HOME’s Inn of Amazing Mercy in 2023. The supportive housing project stands to lose federal aid under a Trump administration plan.

Philadelphia stands to lose tens of millions of dollars in federal funds intended to fight homelessness under a plan issued by the Trump administration that advocates say could significantly disrupt ...

Hoping to keep a Philadelphia library’s bathrooms clean and free of loiterers, a nonprofit group is employing formerly homeless people as bathroom attendants, reports the Associated Press. The Free ...