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Housing · Completed

Jefferson Square

1208 S 5TH ST

New Construction

Council district
District 1
Developer / applicant
Jefferson Square CDC
Funding source
City of Philadelphia
Total units
24
Affordable units
24
Completion
Jan 1, 1970
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Mark Squilla
District 1 · D
215-686-3458
City Hall Room 332
785 projects in this district
2336 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
Dickinson Square West Civic Association
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: John Dizzley
2679090426
Meets: 2219 S 7th St Philadelphia, PA 19147
Neighborhood context (census tract 002500)
Median income
$83,576
Renter occupied
42.29%
Rent burdened
29.66%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
4,349
ACS 5-year 2022

Nearby projects

within 400m walk
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Jefferson Square
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Zoning: Zoning Permit
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Reed Street
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Drueding Rainbow

Displacement signal

L&I demolition permits, last 3 yrs, within 400m

Philly doesn't publish eviction filings, so this uses demolition permits as the closest proxy for housing stock loss in the immediate area. 2 permits found.

1430 S 6TH STMay 15, 2024
1428 S 6TH STMay 1, 2024

Recent transfers within 200m

Block-level acquisition pattern. 8 transactions in the immediate area.

514 MANTON ST
BELULAJ AGIM;BELULAJ ADEN AGIM → SAMSEL ZACHARY;MAHER LAUREN
Jan 9, 2026
$700,000
512 MANTON ST
KUPA DESTAN → ROBERTSON JONIDA
Dec 2, 2025
$650,000
1140 S 6TH ST
PINTO CYNTHIA → LY AMY;ZHENG HAN WEI
Nov 26, 2025
$320,000
502 WHARTON ST
BROOKINS PEGGY D;KING DOROTHY ESTATE OF;KING DOROTHY C ESTATE OF → CHEN LIN PING
Oct 23, 2025
$445,000
623 MANTON ST
MURRAY MATTHEW;MURRAY GIDGET → HUGHES TRAVIS;BARRY KELLY
Oct 18, 2025
$602,500
1229-33 S MARSHALL ST
MCCLIMON MICHAEL J;CARRIER CAROLYN → DILLON ROSEANNE;WOLFMAN-ARENT AVRAM
Sep 23, 2025
$635,000
1328 S 5TH ST
QUAN KEVIN;QUAN ANNIE N → LI MIN QING
Aug 11, 2025
$589,000
508 FEDERAL ST
TRAN JOHN → HALE BRANDTON
Aug 7, 2025
$445,999
Data source · last refreshed 5/16/2026, 5:15:41 PM
Affordable Housing Production
City of Philadelphia / DHCD

Updated quarterly. fiscal_year_complete is sometimes just a year (2018) which we fold to Jan 1. No AMI breakdown. No council district on the source record (we backfill via spatial join). Older projects may be missing addresses.

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