“A Packed Church, Empty Solutions: Philadelphia’s Housing Crisis and the Limits of Old Thinking”

Yesterday, P.O.W.E.R convened a housing affordability assembly at Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church. The sanctuary was full—overflowing, really—with more than 1,000 people from across Philadelphia, representing churches, faith communities, and concerned residents gathered under one shared anxiety: a city in the grip of a housing crisis. Rising rents. Shrinking housing stock. A looming reduction in federal funding as Washington signals cuts […]