PHILADELPHIA CITY COUNCILCommittee on Housing, Neighborhood Development and the Homeless, Bill No.221017 Testimony By Dina SchlossbergExecutive Director, Regional Housing Legal ServicesApril 24, 2023 Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity…
Category: Policy
Speak Your Mind on Tenants’ Rights
By Cindy Daley, Director of Community Development Initiatives Federal Housing Finance Agency Seeks Input The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) wants to hear from you. On May 30, FHFA issued…
Governor Shapiro’s Fiscal Year 2024 Proposed Budget
By Vanessa Raymond-Garcia, RHLS Policy Analyst On March 7, 2023, Governor Shapiro gave his first statewide budget speech to Pennsylvania’s state representatives and the public outlining his priorities for the…
Improving the 2023 Proposed Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule.
by Vanessa Raymond-Garcia, RHLS Policy Analyst The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) law is a provision of the Fair Housing Act, a federal law passed in 1968. The goal of…
Bethel AME wins back land and has exciting restorative development plans for Pittsburgh.
A happy day for a historical Black church in the city of Pittsburgh. Almost 70 years since the original church was demolished to make way for development, Bethel AME has…