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Philly conducts a homeless count each year. Here's why it's held in January, despite some drawbacks

The annual survey helps guide the city's response to homelessness, which has been rising locally and nationwide for several ...
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Code Blue declared in Philadelphia as frigid conditions prompt emergency shelter response

The Philadelphia Office of Homeless Services declared a Code Blue effective at 3 p.m. Sunday as dangerously cold weather moved into the ...
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Automated systems decide which homeless Philadelphians get housing and who stays on the street – often in ways that feel arbitrary to those waiting

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 ...
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Homelessness on the rise in Philadelphia, report shows

Homelessness has risen in Philadelphia over the last four years, according to a new city report obtained by NBC10. The report shows that the city’s unhoused population decreased from 2020 to 2021 but ...
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Trump is changing the way aid goes to cities. Philly stands to lose tens of millions of dollars for housing.

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 ...
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NO STRAYS: Philly’s Presence of Groomed Dogs & Abundance of Homeless People | PicsVideo

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 ...
Connecticut Post

Automated systems decide which homeless Philadelphians get housing and who stays on the street – often in ways that feel arbitrary to those waiting

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Pelle G. Tracey, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) Seeing a person huddled ...
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Trump is changing the way aid goes to cities. Philly stands to lose tens of millions of dollars for housing

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 ...