PlanPhilly: Land Bank revises targets in 2017 strategic plan

The issue of affordable housing got a vigorous airing at the early January hearing, in part because the Philadelphia Coalition for Affordable Communities packed the conference room. Many of their coalition members wore brightly colored shirts and offered moving testimony about the difficulty of finding affordable housing in their neighborhoods. When coalition leader Nora Lichtash spoke, she first praised the plan for setting specific goals for the acquisition and disposition of land. She just took issue with the content of those goals, which she argued didn’t do enough for most of the residents in America's poorest city with over a million residents.

Philly Voice: Community group turns to land trusts in Kensington

A rendering of the Grace Townhomes project on Auburn Street between Tulip and Aramingo in Kensington. The Women's Community Revitalization Project will break ground today on land owned by the Community Justice Land Trust.

CHN: A Week With Nuns on the Bus

WCRP hosted Nuns on the Bus, touring our Grace Townhomes and rallying together in support of tax credits which help develop affordable housing units. 

Spirit News: Paving the Way: After Years of Development in Fishtown and Northern Liberties, New Projects Arise in Port Richmond

As Fishtown and Northern Liberties have been transformed by the influx of residential development for the past decade, Port Richmond has remained largely unchanged… until now.

The Laura Flanders Show: Continuing Revolution: Democratic National Convention 2016

Nora Lichtash, executive director of the Women's Community Revitalization Project, and Aishah Shahidah Simmons, filmmaker and activist, both attest to the erasure of women's voices, particularly queer women of color, from progressive movements. Support the liberation of those at the margins, they say, and then we'll all get free. Skip to 9:45 in the video to see the interview with Nora and Aishah. 

Philadelphia Tribune: New home, same mission for affordable-housing advocate

An affordable-housing advocate has marked its relocation after being displaced by gentrification.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Change astir in Port Richmond

A development of 36 townhouses for low-income residents being built on a vacant lot in Port Richmond is another sign that the neighborhood where people still order "square cheese" and fish pickles out of a barrel is changing.

The Philadelphia Public Record: POLS ON THE STREET: Philadelphia Is Looking For A Hot July With Democratic Convention

With this Thanksgiving and Christmas season calendars carrying many a holiday or family event on almost everyone’s mind, especially the more attuned political readers, we felt it’s time to look at what’s going to be a major factor capturing all our attentions the end of next July, the 2016 Democratic National Convention.