Corporate Tax Cut Squeezes Funding For Low-Income Housing

“Thomas Capuano was caring for his 96-year-old mother at her house when it got him thinking about his own future.

Capuano, 67 and single, was concerned about what would happen to him long term. He didn’t want to be what he called “deadweight” to his siblings.

So he put his name on the waiting list for an apartment at St. John Neumann Place II in South Philadelphia, developed for low-income seniors by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. There were more than 30 people ahead of him on the list for the 52 units in the apartment building, but he made the cut.”