Description: Groundbreaking held to expand affordable housing in North Philadelphia, Affordable Housing Complex Closure Leaves 70 Philadelphia Families to Find New Home, Philadelphia Housing Authority to open wait list for first time in over a decade
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Philadelphia ( / ˌ f ɪ l ə ˈ d ɛ l f i ə / ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most-populous in the United States , with an estimated population in 2014 of 1,560,297. In the Northeastern United States , at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill River , Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valley , a metropolitan area home to 7.2 million people and the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.
In 1682, William Penn founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony . Philadelphia played an instrumental role in the American Revolution as a meeting place for the Founding Fathers of the United States , who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787. Philadelphia was one of the nation's capitals in the Revolutionary War , and served as temporary U.S. capital while Washington, D.C. , was under construction. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became a major
Philadelphia is a 1993 American drama film and one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to acknowledge HIV/AIDS , homosexuality , and homophobia . It was written by Ron Nyswaner , directed by Jonathan Demme and stars Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington .