Heather Hoover sits on her porch while her children, Emmalie, 6, Hannah, 3, and Jared, 1, play in front of their home in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. Hoover, a mother of eight, hopes to move to a place with more space for her children to play. She said it seems like the town is falling apart. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
After getting kicked out of a condemned building and another homeless encampment, Davina Dalor built a shack out of scrap wood and found objects in the woods in Allentown, Pa. Before being homeless, Dalor had a wife and a job as a forklift operator that paid $20 an hour. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
What’s left of Kaier's brewery in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania. At one point in the earlier 20th century, the brewery employed 150 people. James Rhoades, the borough’s engineer, says the brewery is the poster child of blight in Mahanoy City. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Tawanda Jones, leader of Camden Sophisticated Sisters, with Da'Anah Harper, 6, reminds the team members to carry themselves with confidence. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Nymiura Lee stands on the third floor of her grandparents' home in North Philadelphia. The conditions in the home became too dangerous for the family to stay. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
John Zimmerman rents a house in south Bethlehem with his girlfriend. He said in his spare time he sets up a yard sale on his front porch. “As long as it works, I’ll sell it,” said Zimmerman. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
A drill worker covered in shale, mud and drill cuttings seals off a well and cleans the blowout preventer at a Cabot Oil & Gas natural gas drill site in Kingsley, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Carmela Spano leads the flag processional Saturday night at the Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, N.J. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Joselyn Kluesner, 3, looks for rusted toys in her grandfather's fallout shelter in Chalfont, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Nicole Lawrie, 14, of Malvern, Pa., follows along as Pope Francis says Mass on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
An airplane flies over Fort Mifflin en route to land at the Philadelphia International Airport. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)