Project HOME in the News

[NEWS] New LGBTQ residence targets young adults facing homelessness

August 30, 2018

A local nonprofit housing organization is accepting applications for the first LGBTQ-friendly permanent housing residence for young homeless adults.

[NEWS] Project HOME Accepting Applications Via New Process

August 27, 2018

From KYW1060

Project HOME is accepting applications for 30 units of subsidized housing, set to open this winter... but the organization is using a new application process. KYW Newsradio's City Hall bureau chief Pat Loeb reports....

[NEWS] To prevent chronic homelessness, Philly nonprofit offers some young adults more than shelter

August 17, 2018

From WHYY:

Jerome Maynard’s two-bedroom apartment in Roxborough is a special place — not because of the beige carpeting and white walls, but simply because it’s his.

Roughly a year ago, the 26-year-old was homeless — and had been for the better part of a decade.

“I’m still getting used to it, but it does feel nice,” he said of his home.

[NEWS] How This Philly Filmmaker Convinced Idris Elba to Make a Movie Here

August 14, 2018

From Philadelphia Weekly:

That movie came out in 2010, and you launched Neighborhood Film Company in Brewerytown one year later. Why stay here?
I had a very specific mission: I wanted to train adults coming out of incarceration or homelessness. Everybody told me it wouldn’t work. But then I met Sister Mary Scullion from Project HOME and told her my idea. She was the first person who didn’t think I was losing my mind.

[NEWS] After a killing, a meeting in Suburban Station’s ‘Living Room’ for our city’s most vulnerable

August 10, 2018

From Philly.com:

Every weekday morning, souls who live in and around Suburban Station haul their few belongings through the maze of the station, through the cacophony of the Hub of Hope, the innovative homeless service center there, and make their way to a comfortable back room that feels, well, like a living room.

And that's what it's called.

[Press Release] Project HOME Announces Grand Opening of Ruth Williams House at the Gene & Marlene Epstein Building

April 24, 2018

Ruth Williams House at the Gene & Marlene Epstein Building ribbon cutting

Project HOME Announces Grand Opening of Ruth Williams House at the Gene & Marlene Epstein Building

Newest Residence at 2415 North Broad Street Made Possible by the Vision and Generosity of Local Advocates and Long-time Supporters of Project HOME

[NEWS] Area Dems rail against Trump's proposed budget cuts

April 11, 2018

From the Philadelphia Tribune:

Without federal funding, Sister Mary Scullion wonders how one of Philadelphia’s newest affordable housing developments would have been built.

On Monday morning, Scullion stood in a first-floor conference room in the Ruth Williams House at the Gene & Marlene Epstein Building in North Philadelphia, which opened this year.

An Advocacy Thank You: Congress Passes Omnibus Spending Package for FY18

March 28, 2018

We did it!

Thanks to tireless efforts by advocates around the country, including thousands of letters you sent to elected officials, the new federal budget includes new funding that can help us make progress toward ending homelessness.

Congress passed (and the president signed) an omnibus spending package for the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2018, including $42.7 billion in funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will receive $42.7 billion. Some highlights of the spending package include:

Sister Mary Scullion Recognized in the House of Representatives

March 8, 2018

Rep. Brendan Boyle (PA-13) recognized Sister Mary Scullion on the floor of the House of Representatives for her work to end homelessness.

[NEWS] Homeless service center opens in Suburban Station

January 31, 2018

From Philly Voice:

Hub for Hope, a service center for Philadelphia’s homeless population, opened Tuesday in Suburban Station.