Philadelphia residents received an extended moratorium until next year. But they didnt include the homeless encampments. Despite CDC guidelines being against evicting encampments, the folks on the ground have been ordered in court to be evicted, and will be evicted on September 9th by notice. We are not going to just sit around and be told to scurry off and die at the hands of eviction in the State of Pennsylvania. We will stand up and fight to stop all evictions. We will sit in the housing authorities. We will mass squat in government owned homes. We will not accept a death sentence from our city government. We will work together to ensure every person has a shelter, has a home, has food and clean water. We will build mutual aid. We will stand up and fight for those who have the least amount of protections in our nation. Because all of us are 1 bad day from being homeless ourselves.

To those who need to know where to park their vehicles they live in, some Walmarts and Cracker Barrels currently offer individuals the ability to park in their lots and sleep in their vehicles. The problem is, each walmart will need 4200 parking spaces to help every evicted Pennsylvanian household park in their lots. That becomes 3500 parking spaces if we include all of the cracker barrel locations too.

Voting won't save us, but there is a drive to get people to volunteer to be poll workers. Most poll workers are elderly and therefore far more susceptible to COVID. If you're interested in a day of work, check out the link:

https://expressforms.pa.gov/apps/pa/dos-votespa/county

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.

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 by taking away their camps, 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 housing 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

Instead of clearing homeless encampments, city leaders should create plans for permanent housing | Opinion
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/philadelphia-homeless-encampment-benjamin-franklin-parkway-evicted-20200901.html

Instead of clearing the camps, maybe the city can spend the money it wastes clearing it, paying officers overtime, etc to help us upgrade the camp. If they at least help us upgrade the camp with clean running water, public restrooms, and other amenities until we can come to a decision, we efficiently help more folks, keep things more sanitary, and have permanent installations to help the public until the affordable housing is provided. We have been asking for public restrooms for ages. How hard is it put to put a couple portable restrooms in philly around our camps? Why don't the subway stations have public restrooms? Why dont we build an equitable city? If neighbors complain about shit on the street you need a restroom, not an eviction. If neighbors are complaining about rent increasing and housing being unaffordable, you build houses. This is why we vote for you! Not just so you can offer Amazon $1 billion. Not so you can offer 76ers $2 billion. Not give skyscraper owners $62 million annually. We elect people to be problem solvers, not problem creaters like Mayor Kenney has been. I agree with Dante, Mayor Kenney's inaction and brutality in a time of moral crisis, while leading his city, will take him to the hottest place in hell.

Mayor Kenney, your eviction plans arent going to be cheap. If you use 100 of your lowest paid men, this will cost approximately $6500 per hour in overtime wages. We dont plan on leaving. So good luck wasting your tax dollars instead of building assets for the city.