On Monday, the Philadelphia Housing Authority made 10,000 spots available on its Housing Choice Voucher waitlist. Formerly know as Section 8, this waitlist has been closed for the past 12 years, and a lottery will determine which Philadelphians can potentially receive affordable housing assistance. Trenae Nuri spoke with Rasheed Ajamu, lifelong Philadelphian and the curator of Phreedom Jawn, about what it was like for his grandmother to live on the waitlist and never get off it. 

The application for the HCV waitlist will be open until February 5 at 5:59 p.m. 

Read Rasheed’s original tweet here.

To follow more of Rasheed’s work at Phreedom Jawn, check out @phreedomjawn on Instagram and Twitter.

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