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Project HOME is a Philadelphia non-profit empowering individuals to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness. None of us are home until all of us are home®

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Prevention Point Philadelphia @ppponline.org · 13/07/2026
Exciting, life-changing things are happening at Philly Home at Girard—the low-barrier safe haven operated in partnership with @projecthome.bsky.social @cityofphiladelphia.bsky.social Warren E. Smith, and PPP. Learn more in our e-newsletter going out later this week!! Sign up: eepurl.com/h7AaaL
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🧵 The candidates' closing remarks ⬇️
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What's one issue you think congress ignores too much?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What is one bill you would introduce in your first 100 days?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Rep. Evans has a strong reputation for his accessibility to community residents. What specific federal programs will you leverage to keep local projects moving and what top issues are residents bringing to you in your current position and what is your immediate plan of action?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
How would you continue Rep. Evans' approach to working directly with local providers on addressing housing needs, especially for seniors and people living with disabilities?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
What specific action would take to protect and expand mental health across the city of Philadelphia for young people and families?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
When the HR1 ("Big Beautiful Bill") was passed, it required work requirements for SNAP and Medicaid benefits. Do you believe work requirements are an effective way to promote economic stability for individuals, including those experiencing homelessness?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yes or no - do you believe that housing is a basic human right and what is one thing you would do to show proof of that?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Yes or no - do you believe that housing is a basic human right and what is one thing you would do to show proof of that?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
NEXT QUESTION: With many residents in Philly spending more than 30% of their income in housing, how do you plan to shift policy so housing is treated as a basic human right?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
First question: What should residents of the third congressional district know about you and what motivates you to run at this moment?
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The Candidate Forum starts at 6 p.m.! We’ll be live posting from the event here.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
TONIGHT: Candidates from the 3rd District Democratic Primary will discuss their positions on affordable housing, homeless assistance, economic opportunity and more at Project HOME's Candidate Forum. 🟡 Attend in person 🔴 Watch the livestream: bit.ly/3rdDistrictL... 🔵 Follow along here on Bluesky!
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
ICYMI: Just before the end of 2025, our president and CEO Donna Bullock broke down how HUD's potential funding changes to permanent, supportive housing programs will undermine the progress we've already made and destabilize a proven solution to homelessness. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
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HUD funding shift would disregard proven solutions to homelessness and destabilize programs | Opinion
Shift in funding priorities indicates an administration willing to gamble with the futures of our most vulnerable neighbors — unless people make their opposition known, and lawmakers work to stop it.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"Out of the 50 largest metropolitan areas, the Philadelphia region is where minimum-wage earners must work the most hours to afford rent." www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...
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Good luck affording an apartment in Philly if you earn minimum wage
Two workers who make Pennsylvania’s minimum wage would each have to work 96 hours per week to afford the area’s median asking rent. The Philly metro is the least affordable of the 50 studied.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We were encouraged to see this decision blocking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's sudden plan to drastically change how funding for permanent supportive housing is distributed. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
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US judge blocks Trump administration from altering homelessness funding conditions
A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from imposing new restrictions on more than $3 billion in grant funding used to provide permanent housing and other services t...
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
We were excited to hear Mayor Cherelle Parker pledge to provide 1,000 new beds to Philadelphia’s inventory for people experiencing street homelessness during her State of the City address this afternoon. Our President/CEO, Donna Bullock, & Co-Founder, Sister Mary Scullion were joined the Mayor. 1/3
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Please call the Homeless Outreach Hotline at 215-232-1984 if you see someone in need. A gift today helps us support someone coming in from the cold and connect them with case management, medical care, and long-term housing solutions that offer lasting hope: give.projecthome.org/campaign/cod...
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 04/12/2025
Between budget cuts, the government shutdown, and delayed SNAP benefits, the number of families seeking food from Share Food Program has increased 12-fold. It’s daunting.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 30/11/2025
For a second successive year, The Inquirer is proud to join local media partners in Philly Gives, a campaign to raise money for nonprofit organizations committed to serving those in need throughout our region. Project HOME is one of 10 nonprofits to be featured through the end of the year.
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Project HOME provides shelter and restores dignity | Philly Gives
Project HOME, is one of the city's largest nonprofit housing agencies, serves 15,000 people a year. The group's head said that recent cutbacks have been “terrifying.”
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 30/11/2025
Project HOME is one of the city’s largest nonprofit housing agencies, serving 15,000 people a year. Donna Bullock, the group’s head, said that recent cutbacks have been “terrifying.”
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
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100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We urge supporters of affordable, supportive housing everywhere to visit @naehomelessness.bsky.social online at endhomelessness.org/action/stoph... and tell your representatives to stop a HUD change to affordable housing funding rules that could increase homelessness in the U.S.
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ACT NOW: Congress Must Stop HUD
Your community’s federal homelessness funding is in jeopardy, and the very backbone of the nation’s homelessness response is under attack.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Our VP of Advocacy, Public Policy & Street Outreach, Candice Player, joined other advocates in Harrisburg urging lawmakers to adopt a “Shelter First” approach to homelessness in Pennsylvania rather than criminalization: projectho.me/4oLXEUz
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Pa. advocates push to counter the ‘criminalization of homelessness’ following SCOTUS ruling • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
To combat a "criminalization of homelessness," two lawmakers seek to prioritize Shelter First policies in Pennsylvania.
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Regional Housing Legal Services @rhlspa.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Utah provides a picture of how homelessness may be treated under trump:
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In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape (Gift Article)
State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”
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NPR @npr.org · 14/11/2025
The overhaul shifts funds to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. The administration says it promotes "self-sufficiency," but critics warn many will risk losing housing again. n.pr/3JLPM6r
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The Trump administration plans major shift away from long-term housing for homelessness
The overhaul shifts funds to transitional housing requiring work and addiction treatment. The administration says it promotes "self-sufficiency," but critics warn many will risk losing housing again.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We commend Mayor Parker and Council President Johnson for their leadership in confronting Philly’s housing and homelessness crisis. The City’s Housing Opportunities Made Easy (H.O.M.E.) Plan could add & preserve deeply affordable housing & prevent homelessness. www.projecthome.org/news/project...
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Project HOME Applauds Philadelphia’s H.O.M.E. Plan and Calls for Focus on Deep Affordability and Homelessness Prevention | Project HOME
Project HOME commends Mayor Cherelle Parker and Council President Kenyatta Johnson for their leadership in confronting Philadelphia’s housing and h
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The expected cuts, which would be the most consequential in a generation, are detailed in forthcoming 100-page notice from HUD, and would govern more than $3.5 billion in Continuum of Care funds, the main source of federal money for homelessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"Drug users would lose consciousness on the street, with their heart rates dropping. The paramedics who found them tried dispensing naloxone, a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses, but couldn’t wake them up." www.inquirer.com/health/a/med...
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A new, potent street drug is causing severe withdrawal, and Philly doctors are scrambling to respond
By last winter, medetomidine was showing up in 70% of illicit opioid samples tested in Philly, along with other unregulated substances and synthetic opioids like fentanyl.
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PhillyVoice.com @phillyvoice.com · 03/11/2025
The number of unhoused women who delivered babies has surged in recent years. Caring for them requires empathy and collaboration, social service providers say.
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For homeless women, pregnancy presents many challenges — from access to care to complication risks
The number of unhoused women who delivered babies has surged in recent years. Caring for them requires empathy and collaboration, social service providers say.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 03/09/2025
For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached. The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.
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Philly’s first-in-the-nation experiment giving cash to struggling renters is working, researchers say
Families that got cash rental assistance were less likely to be evicted, experience homelessness, and report having serious problems with their homes, according to a study of the PHLHousing+ program.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28/08/2025
Clearing encampments is part of a wider push across the country by Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike to take drastic action to reduce homelessness, but experts say it's counterproductive and ineffective. to.pbs.org/3JuTUHv
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Why clearing encampments doesn’t usually solve problems of homelessness
Clearing encampments is part of a wider push across the country by Democrats and Republican lawmakers alike to take drastic action to reduce homelessness, but experts say it's usually misguided.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
"Rather than instructing federal agencies to scale proven solutions like permanent supportive housing and rental assistance..." share.inquirer.com/dLaXAm
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Trump’s executive order on homelessness and mental illness discards what works | Opinion
The president’s order trades on worn-out myths about the relationship between mental illness and violence, while leaning into the familiar politics of disorder, danger, and urban decay.
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KYW Newsradio on 103.9 FM @kywnewsradio.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
For 35 years, Project HOME has been fighting to break the cycle of homelessness in Philadelphia. Recently, the founder passed the torch to a new CEO, Donna Bullock. Shara Dae Howard met both of them on the latest Shara in the City: spr.ly/63320f2iUA
Shara Dae Howard and Donna Bullock pose for a selfie standing on a rooftop in Philadelphia. A text overlay says "Get to know the CEO of Project HOME and the legacy she's inherited".
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Federal Raids Target D.C. Homeless Camps www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
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Federal Raids Target D.C. Homeless Camps
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
"The president’s order would reward cities and states for clearing encampments, but vigorous enforcement of anti-camping laws won’t solve our problems, either." www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
inquirer.com
Trump’s executive order on homelessness and mental illness discards what works | Opinion
The president’s order trades on worn-out myths about the relationship between mental illness and violence, while leaning into the familiar politics of disorder, danger, and urban decay.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
We are following the White House's actions in the nation's capitol and believe that federalizing the D.C. police to clear encampments isn’t a solution—it’s a shortcut that erodes community trust and treats homelessness as a public nuisance rather than a human crisis.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Short answer: Yes. Our President and CEO, Donna Bullock, recently spoke to @thephilacitizen.bsky.social and made the case that our city is well-positioned to realize a functional end to street homelessness. thephiladelphiacitizen.org/can-philly-b...
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Can Philly Become the First Major U.S. City to End Homelessness?
According to local experts, Philadelphia could indeed functionally end homelessness. Here’s what it would take
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Our VP advocacy, public policy, and street outreach, Candice Player, writes today with our response to President Trump's recent executive order focused on homelessness titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” Read more: www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
inquirer.com
Trump’s executive order on homelessness and mental illness discards what works | Opinion
The president’s order trades on worn-out myths about the relationship between mental illness and violence, while leaning into the familiar politics of disorder, danger, and urban decay.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
When temperatures soar, so does the danger. Extreme heat increases the risks of chronic street homelessness, leaving them to confront increased likelihood of dehydration, heat stroke, or even death. With your support, we can help respond to this crisis. www.projecthome.org/news/code-re...
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Code Red in Effect: How Can You Help | Project HOME
Summer in Philadelphia can be brutal.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/07/2025
President Trump wants to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize people experiencing homelessness for longer periods of time. The executive order says shifting those with mental illness and addiction into long-term institutions will restore public order.
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Trump order pushes forcible hospitalization of homeless people
Trump executive order would increase hospitalization of homeless individuals with mental health and substance use disorders. The order said shifting homeless people into long-term institutional settin...
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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 24/07/2025
Trump’s Proposed Time Limit on HUD Subsidies Would ‘Devastate’ Low Income Families in Bucks County and Across Pennsylvania | If the two-year limit is enacted, evictions are expected to skyrocket, resulting in an increase in homelessness, reports @patlamarche.bsky.social.
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Trump's Proposed Time Limit on HUD Subsidies Would ‘Devastate’ Low Income Families in Bucks County and Across Pennsylvania - Bucks County Beacon
If the two-year limit is enacted, evictions are expected to skyrocket, resulting in an increase in homelessness.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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Study says Trump's proposed time limit for low-income housing most likely to affect working families and children
The study suggests a proposed two-year time limit on federal housing subsidies could affect as many as 1.4 million households in public housing and Section 8 programs.
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Billy Penn at WHYY @billy-penn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
SNAP cuts from President Trump's recent "Big Beautiful Bill" will affect Philly's food banks and SNAP recipients. Here is what you need to know -- from several experts and food leaders. billypenn.com/2025/07/22/s...
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SNAP cuts will affect Philadelphians and food banks: Here’s what you need to know
Billy Penn spoke with experts and food leaders about how recent legislation will worsen food insecurity in the region.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
apnews.com/article/hud-... of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit
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1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit
A Trump administration proposal could put more than a million low-income households at risk of losing their government-subsidized housing.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A year after criminalizing street camping, KY has more homelessness as root causes go unaddressed kentuckylantern.com/2025/07/18/a...
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A year after criminalizing street camping, KY has more homelessness as root causes go unaddressed • Kentucky Lantern
A year after Kentucky criminalized street camping, homelessness is up as leaders fail to confront the housing shortage and other root causes.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We were thrilled tonight to honor MPOWER co-founder Leigh Middleton with the SPARK (Service Partnership and Radical Kindness) Award for her tireless, transformational support for our mission. Thank you, Leigh, for all you have done for the Project HOME community! www.projecthome.org/news/release...
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[RELEASE] Leigh Middleton Honored with SPARK Award | Project HOME
Project HOME today announced it will host the 15th celebration of Bring Philly HOME, presented by Penn Medicine, on Wednesday, June 4, from 6 p.m.
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Project HOME @projecthome.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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