West Philadelphia resident Vivian Bailey, 76, spent much of the second half of 2017 couchsurfing. For the prior two years, he’d been a resident of the Penn Wynn building in Wynnfield, a quiet, leafy neighborhood on the city’s western border. But last May, the owners of the building decided to extensively renovate, displacing many of the residents who relied on Section 8 vouchers to pay their rent.
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