Public housing in Philadelphia is a significant portion of the overall housing stock in Philadelphia. Most public housing is operated by the

Philadelphia Housing Authority The Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) is a municipal authority providing Public housing services in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the fourth-largest housing authority in the United States and is the largest landlord in Pennsylvania. PHA ho ...

. On average, a Philadelphia public housing development is 69% African American, 26% Hispanic, and 5% White and other.2010 Census

List of public housing projects

* Passyunk Homes South Philadelphia (demolished) * Tasker Homes South Philadelphia, in the

Grays Ferry Grays Ferry, also known as Gray's Ferry, is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia bounded (roughly) by 25th Street on the east, the Schuylkill River on the west, Vare Avenue on the south, and Grays Ferry Avenue on the north. The section of this nei ...

neighborhood (demolished, replaced by Greater Grays Ferry Estates) * Richard Allen Homes North Philadelphia (demolished) * Blumberg Homes North Philadelphia (demolished) * James W. Johnson Homes North Philadelphia, in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood * Riverview Courts South Philadelphia * Bartram Village Homes Southwest Philadelphia * Norris Homes North Philadelphia (apartment tower demolished) * Martin Luther King Homes South Philadelphia (demolished) * Hill Creek Apartments located in Northeast Philadelphia *

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North Philadelphia * Morton Homes Germantown, Philadelphia * Abbottsford Homes North Philadelphia * Cambridge Homes North Philadelphia (demolished) *

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North Philadelphia * Cecil B. Moore Homes North Philadelphia *

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Germantown *

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West Philadelphia * Lucien E. Blackwell Homes West Philadelphia *

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Northeast Philadelphia * Sen. Herbert Arlene Homes North Philadelphia *

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North Philadelphia *

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West Philadelphia * Harrison Homes North Philadelphia *

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North Philadelphia * Arch Homes West Philadelphia *

Queen Lane Apartments Queen Lane Apartments opened in 1955 as one of several Post-War public housing hi-rise complexes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which were built and maintained by the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA). The PHA demolished the Queen Lane high-ri ...

Germantown (demolished) *

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North Philadelphia (demolished) * Mantua Hall Homes West Philadelphia (demolished) * Haddington Homes West Philadelphia * Mill Creek Plaza West Philadelphia (demolished) * Falls Ridge Homes East Falls * Wilson Park Homes South Philadelphia * Paschall Homes Southwest Philadelphia (demolished) * Liddonfield Homes Northeast Philadelphia (fully demolished) *

Carl Mackley Houses The Carl Mackley Houses, also originally known as Juniata Park Housing, is a private apartment complex in the Juniata neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1933–1934 as single-family apartments, it opened in 1935. The project wa ...

, Juniata (now privately owned apartments) * White Hall Commons (Red Brick) Northeast Philadelphia ( Frankford)

External links

Philadelphia Housing Authority"The Housing Problem in Philadelphia : a Lecture / by George W. Norris, President of the Philadelphia Housing Commission, Digital Library@Villanova University"

References

Municipal authorities in Pennsylvania {{Philadelphia-stub