affordable housing

FILE - Rep. Justin Fleming, D-Dauphin, speaks at campaign event for Kamala Harris alongside housing advocates and legislators. (

Pa. housing advocates rally behind Harris campaign’s affordable housing message

Ben Wasserstein

Vernon Jay is converting an office building into affordable homes on Front Street. The Equity Platforms CEO credits the Biden-Harris administration’s effort to create affordable housing by converting commercial space to residential.

Community members spent months protesting a potential development on part of Nittany Village Park on South Atherton Street.

Business, Economics and Finance

State College Developer Withdraws Proposed Use Of Nittany Village Park For Affordable Housing Units

Developer Progress Development Group has withdrawn its request to develop on part of State College’s Nittany Village Park after months of protest from the…

Housing Boom In State College Raises Questions About Growth

Anne Danahy

The development going on in State College right now is expected to increase the number of housing units in the borough by about 20 percent. And largely…

Tonetta Graham on her Strawberry Mansion porch, in philadelphia, PA.

Business, Economics and Finance

Why This Resident Isn't Worried About Philly Hipsters Moving Into Her Neighborhood

This story originally appeared on PlanPhilly.—If Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion section gentrifies, Tonetta Graham knows her block is bound to change.…

Matt Rooke sits outside of his home in State College, Pennsylvania. A former resident at the Hilltop Mobile Home Park, Rooke said his experience of being displaced gave him insights into the affordable housing problem in the area.

5 Years Later, Development Imminent Where Mobile Home Parks Once Provided Affordable Housing

Min Xian

Some of the communities experiencing the most rapid changes in Pennsylvania are those that abut colleges and universities.State College, for instance, has…