As you can imagine, from the title, this is about to be a rollercoaster of a story. You’d be right in making that assumption. To protect the subject of our story, we’ve changed the names of all the characters. Please read and share this so that we can bring awareness to these issues. This is Sofia’s story. An immigrant from V ...
“I’m just happy and grateful to have a place to call home,” said Christina Whitehurst, a single mother, and resident of the Johnson Homes projects located in North Philadelphia. Seeing her children run around their new home, braid each other’s hair, and share laughs immediately makes you understand why this woman, who once lived ...
On Monday, April 6th, the WYL team had a meeting in Philadelphia. While I won’t disclose which organization we met with (and it makes no difference), the information we learned about how public housing is handled in Philly made us sick to our stomachs. A few quick items to note: There are three forms of public housing in Philly: S ...
Whose Your Landlord is excited to announce we are officially launching our listings in Beta! This means that during this time, we are working with onboarding landlords so that renters can find their homes here. Landlords- for you, this means post your listings FOR FREE! We have also made a lot of headway in signing up home providers, s ...
Every year, thousands of people descend on Austin, Texas looking to learn about the newest gadgets, companies, developments in education, and to hear about the dopest new musicians to hit the scene. 2016 was no different. While I didn’t get an opportunity to attend EDU or Music, I did get a chance to fully experience Interactive. For th ...
Why we went This year, a major car company (which we can’t announce yet) ran a huge startup competition in three U.S. cities and Philly was one of them. In order to win your city, you had to pitch three celebrity entrepreneurs on your business, while driving a car around the city. Picture Cash Cab meeting Sharktank. If an entrepren ...
For the past two years, WhoseYourLandlord has enabled renters to rate their landlords and housing complexes…Well, come Sunday evening, WYL will enable renters to find their next home, as well. New UI/UX When we first launched two years ago, we wanted to be old school, bold, and colorful in design. From the beginning, we set out to ...
