Aaron Moselle | WHYY
Aaron Moselle covers housing and community development for WHYY’s PlanPhilly, filing stories for both radio and web. He’s a city native and calls South Philadelphia home.
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A website that applies the Rate My Professor concept to landlords has raised more than $2 million in venture capital funding. As WHYY's Aaron Moselle reports, the website started in Philly and has expanded to other cities.
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Philadelphia held onto more of its residents during the pandemic than other big cities across the country. WHYY’s Aaron Moselle reports.
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Beginning Feb. 24 Philadelphia police will be barred from stopping drivers solely for committing minor traffic violations. As WHYY’s Aaron Moselle reports, the goal is to reduce racial profiling and maximize police resources.
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The head of the Philadelphia Housing Authority says the agency did not have a larger unit to offer the family living in the rowhome fire that caught fire last week in Fairmount. The blaze left 12 dead, making it the deadliest fire here in more than hundred years.
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Three months after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, Philadelphia’s largest resettlement agencies are busy finding housing for the hundreds of evacuees who have decided to stay here. WHYY’s Aaron Moselle reports.
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Philadelphia City Councilmember Maria Quinones-Sanchez wants to limit outside employment for city lawmakers. WHYY’s Aaron Moselle reports, the measure is a response to a federal jury convicting one of her colleagues on Council of bribery.
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Philadelphia’s emergency rental assistance program may soon run out of cash. As WHYY’s Aaron Moselle reports, that could leave thousands of renters and landlords out of luck.
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For funeral directors in Philadelphia, the city’s unrelenting gun violence epidemic has been daunting. There’s less time between funerals, but also a lot more emotional and physical stress as they guide family after family through a process steeped in shock and consuming pain. WHYY’s Aaron Moselle spoke to a pair of them and has this report.
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Philadelphia is becoming the next big city to stop collecting fines for overdue books at its public libraries. The hope is that the new policy will drive an uptick in daily visitors.
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Nearly 13 percent of Philadelphia's population doesn't have a bank account — more than double the regional average. The city has just become the first big city in the U.S. to ban cashless businesses.