Starting September 8th, with inaction by the state government, up to 500k households could be forcefully removed from their homes. Pennsylvania is about to fuck around and find out.

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Short notice but organizers are asking for support before the meeting wraps up by 7:30 if people can get here in time. City is fucking the encampment a over and not giving residents any kind of immediate option for safe housing

Some good news! https://news.trust.org/item/20200901202841-yyqrf/

Why are shelters inefficient and not helpful? It's like getting processed by the criminal justice system. You often get drug tested, have belongings searched. You often have to be in the facility by a certain time. They are also usually not free. Our state does not have the shelter capacity for 500k households, especially during a pandemic. The City of Philadelphia is sentencing those without shelter to death, and they want to brutalize them further through eviction on September 9th. 18000 homeless, and 40000 vacant properties that can be collected by eminent domain. A $45 million dollar federal grant for low income housing assistance bought a new office. This is unacceptable!

Meanwhile, the city government just got asked by the Philadelphia 76ers franchise with a perfectly functional arena to pay $2 billion for a new arena. $2 billion builds 20,000 homes. So if you want to know why we will physically defend the camp on the 9th? It's because Mayor Kenny has openly decided to side with economic fascism.

Fascism is an economic system in which the government controls the private entities (PHA) that own the factors of production. The four factors are entrepreneurship, capital goods, natural resources, and labor. A central planning authority (PHA) directs company leaders to work in the government's (Philadelphia) interest. Rather than directly work towards addressing the interests of its civilian class. By denying a human right of permanent housing in a safe and properly distanced environment during a national emergency when the resources exist, you have the power and authority to make that decision, and the people are demanding it, you are committing by textbook definition fascistic economic policy Mayor Jim Kenney. We will physically fight against that to protect and defend civilians in crisis.

The city of Philadelphia has consistently lied to its populous of how many homeless people there are. Mayor Kenney is guilty of hiding the homelessness from a census. Philadelphia surveys how many people are outside on the coldest night of the year, and that's how many people they will call homeless. Those are just a small survey of the smallest population of shelterless people during the year. More folks during the summer will be shelterless. The city of Philadelphia's office of homeless affairs has helped nearly 18,000 different people last year. So the mayor is guilty in lying to us about the extent and damage caused by our cities economic and criminal justice policies. The Mayor is responsible and red handed in why there are over 200 people who die annually from extreme poverty.

Seriously, if you cant use the properties owned by PHA, you can use these lots, and give the money the sixers are asking to fulfill construction costs and eminent domain for public housing. 2 billion builds a lot of houses. If you can afford to give that to the sixers, you can use that for you civilians.

https://www.phila.gov/programs/vacant-lot-program/#:~:text=There%20are%20approximately%2040%2C000%20vacant,vacant%20lots%20are%20privately%20owned.

I am a huge NBA and 76ers fan. But the Sixers will not get money for a new stadium when there are 18000 homeless people in our city. Until all 18000 homeless folks are housed, we will block any stadium construction if public money is used for it.

https://www.whyy.org/articles/sixers-4b-arena-bid-vows-black-and-brown-inclusion-goals-similar-projects-failed-to-meet/amp/

The other thing about this whole idea for public is that it keeps all of the assets in the hands of the city of Philadelphia, so the city will not lose its investment in permanent public housing. Now how do we make the city more money for this? Well the housing will help folks become employable. So that is tax income. We can build a couple toll bridges to Jersey. How about Broad street to Red Bank? Washington-Spruce? Allegheny-36th? Linden-Riverside? We definitely need more bridges. How about an increase to the non resident wage tax? This will save lives which should be a priority more than anything else.

End the 10 year tax abatement already. It takes $62 million from schools every year! $62 million builds 600 homes! This is why you are red handed Mayor Kenney. Because you have been caught supporting fascistic economic policy that hurts your civilians, you want to use the police to brutalize them out of their tents just so they have to build another camp? https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/politics/phila-schools-lost-62-million-development-tax-breaks-2017-20181204.html

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