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Philadelphia’s Register of Wills Tracey Gordon stands in front of homes in her Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. “We are waiving and deferring fees associated with tangled titles. Together we can solve this crisis,” she says. —WHYY PHOTO/Emma Lee

In Philadelphia, more than 10,000 homes have “tangled titles,” preventing some families from taking advantage of more than $1 billion in generational wealth, according to Register of Wills Tracey L. Gordon.

In fact, this situation is so dire, that at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Gordon is hosting the entire city congressional delegation with other officials and experts to talk about the problem and how families can prevent it and protect against it.

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