KACS seeks to bring affordable housing to so. Chester County
Kennett Area Community Services (KACS) focuses on basic human needs: food security, housing stability, and a path forward through educational workshops for adults in Southern Chester County. While the KACS Emergency Assistance Program has been extremely important to our community, we cannot only rely on short-term fixes to the systemic problem of housing instability.
KACS is poised to become a...
Legislators meet with nonprofits to discuss housing experience
Cheryl Miles, Chairwoman for Black Women of Chester County in Action, Representative Dan Williams (74th Legislative District), Senator Katie Muth (44th Senatorial District), Chester County Commissioner Josh Maxwell, Mayor Peter Urscheler of Phoenixville, Mayor Lillian DeBaptiste of West Chester, Rob Henry (Administrator, Chester County Partnership to End Homelessness), Hallie Romanowski (Executive...
Chester County 2020 breakfast to discuss affordable housing, Dec. 13
MALVERN — Our workforce has seen little to no growth in the buying power of wages, in decades. Meanwhile the cost of housing has increased dramatically. A serious question exists as to whether the next generation can afford to live in Chester County.
A two-hour Citizen Planners’ Breakfast is being sponsored by Chester County 2020 and the Chester County Planning Commission on Thursday, December...
Corbin announces Phoenixville housing grant
State Rep. Becky Corbin (R-155).
Rep. Becky Corbin (R-155) Tuesday announced the Department of Community and Economic Development has approved a grant through the Industrial Sites Reuse Program (ISRP) to support Petra Community Housing in performing an environmental assessment in Phoenixville.
Petra Community Housing has received approval for a $46,125 Industrial Sites Reuse Program (ISRP) grant...
House Bill 809 would further cut local control
Bill would let state make housing, zoning choices instead of local communities
By Nathaniel Smith, Columnist, The Times
Along with about 50 other people, I attended a hearing at West Chester Borough Hall on July 20 about House Bill 809 proposed to the PA House of Representatives.
On the positive side, we have a democratic process that allows citizens to find out what our legislators are doing and...
