My.philly.home shares do-it-yourself apartment decorating ideas based on the creator's Philly apartment. And Pennsylvania's conservatorship law created an industry that profits from blighted property.
Home envy. We’ve all felt it. You might have been watching HGTV or touring a friend’s new house or scrolling on your phone when you saw a space you wish you lived in.
One of my roommates made our tiny patio cute, with string lights, a table and chairs, and a rug. Inside, my roommates and I hung up some artwork and mirrors, but the space was fine, and we didn’t plan to be in the rowhouse long-term, so what was the point of going all out? I’ve put up curtains at rentals before, but even at my first post-college Philly apartment, which was not in great shape all around, the only thing I replaced was the worst shower head you’ve ever seen. Now after writing about my.philly.home and gettingYou might not know what Act 135 is, but you’ve heard of Britney Spears. So my colleague Samantha Melamed uses the pop star’s conservatorship in her latest story to explain the obscure Pennsylvania law.
But an Inquirer investigation found that conservatorship has grown into its own industry. And, Samantha writes, that industry is “driven by single-purpose nonprofits, often run by real-estate investors, that can extract tens of thousands of dollars from owners even if the nonprofits never take over the property at all.”
It’s also where he lives with his husband, Neal Orzeck, and where members of Orzeck’s family have lived for more than a century. Orzeck’s great-aunt bought the three-story house in 1900 from the Methodist Church.
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