April 16, 2025
The Philadelphia Housing Authority on Wednesday urged a Pennsylvania federal court to free it from a lawsuit accusing it of responsibility for a fatal 2022 public housing fire that killed 12 residents, saying administrators of the decedents' estates failed to show that the agency directly caused the fire.
January 05, 2024
Two Philadelphia agencies have been sued for civil rights violations stemming from a fatal blaze that tore through public housing in the city's Fairmount neighborhood in January 2022, leaving 12 people dead.