Philadelphia Inquirer: Women saw a need and filled it

Nora Lichtash had no idea what she was doing. Neither did most of the women who gathered 30 years ago in a rented Northern Liberties space. They just started talking about what they needed: housing they could afford.

City & State PA: The grassroots movement to eliminate property taxes in Pennsylvania

Nora Lichtash, executive director of the Women's Community Revitalization Project, spoke with her colleagues around the state about SB 76. While many were eager to see some reduction in property taxes, which are a legitimate housing pressure, all feared the current bill would do so by burdening vulnerable renters.

Newsworks: Pop-up exhibit in Philly's Kensington neighborhood puts focus on gentrification

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is in the midst of a massive, city-wide art project with a social mission. “Philadelphia Assembled” involves hundreds of artists and volunteers conducting dozens of events meant to goad city residents into new ways of imagining the future of the city.

Philadelphia Business Journal: New Philly townhouse community breaks ground on former factory site

The Women’s Community Revitalization Project along with Hope Baptist Church will break ground Friday afternoon on a $12.7 million affordable townhouse community in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Generocity.org: GlaxoSmithKline just awarded 10 Philly nonprofits $40K each

The holiday season arrived a tad bit early for 10 Philadelphia-based nonprofits this year. But instead of cherry-nosed Santa Claus tumbling down the chimney prematurely, it’s U.K.-based pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) bearing a bag full of award money.

The Philadelphia Citizen: The Nowak Urban Innovation Award Goes To...WCRP

This year, the 33-year-old organization plans to break ground on a 33-unit low income rental complex, and five new homes for low income buyers that will remain affordable in perpetuity. The projects, as with all of WCRP’s work, came about through a years-long process of working with residents and neighborhood groups to determine their needs—helping to stanch the effects of gentrification on the existing community before it disappears.

Philadelphia Daily News: Affordable housing planned for Point Breeze

A development of about 30 affordable rental homes in Point Breeze moved a step closer to reality Tuesday when the Philadelphia Vacant Property Review Committee approved the transfer of two vacant parcels to the Women's Community Revitalization Project (WCRP).

Philadelphia Tribune: Point Breeze housing development secures $400K grant

Customers Bank has secured a $400,000 Affordable Housing Program grant from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh to build affordable housing for families in Philadelphia’s Point Breeze neighborhood. The planned Mamie Nichols Townhomes complex is sponsored by the Women’s Community Revitalization Project. Once completed, it will feature 32 townhome and apartment units on a former vacant lot in the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia.