Get involved in shaping the future of the 23 school buildings that are about to close.

Philadelphia should look to Kansas City and Detroit, experts say, for good examples of how cities have handled a sudden need to find buyers for a large number of vacant school buildings.

“There’s nothing to be gained by these properties sitting empty for an extended period of time.”

The group that took up residence at the vacant home on the 1500 block of Lindley Avenue was making the elderly neighbors nervous. Every day, they saw the same group of men and women shuttling in and out of the house, having arguments and engaging in suspicious transactions.

One in five Philadelphians have criminal records, and experts say there is a direct correlation between criminal records and poverty.

Senior citizens on fixed incomes who live in gentrifying areas all over the city face the prospect of drastic property tax increases.

“We’re gonna need more than the Democrats or one political party. … This has to be a holistic approach.”

The first in a series addressing Philadelphia’s struggle with poverty.

Many of the city’s parking signs are complicated enough to confuse even the most astute motorist.

A Q & A on parking signs with Michael Bierut of Pentagram, an international graphic design firm. Bierut led the team that redesigned parking signs in New York. What prompted the redesign of the signs in New York? The NYC Department of Transportation has done a whole series of projects to make the streets safer [...]

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signs an executive order creating the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity.