While the City and advocates continue negotiations over the homeless encampment on the Parkway, Denver and New Jersey demonstrate some much-needed new thinking. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
A group of people experiencing homelessness, now living at an encampment on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, say they’re staying put, despite a city order to dismantle the tents by Friday morning. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
People experiencing homelessness and their allies in the Workers Revolutionary Collective and Occupy PHA took control of field on the Parkway June 11 and have named it an autonomous, police-free zone. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
Bethesda Project’s Church Shelter Program uses a community-based surveillance model to prevent pest infestation. Columnist Andrew Huff tells us what that looks like. | From: Generocity (Read more.)
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is extending his moratorium on evictions and foreclosures through Aug. 31, his press office announced Thursday. | From: NBC10/Telemundo 62 (Read more.)
Years of perceived inaction on the part of Philly officials over affordable housing could come to a head this Friday, when the city plans to evict people living in an encampment along the Ben Franklin Parkway. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Negotiations between the city and residents of the encampment over their demands for permanent housing seem to be at an impasse. As the camp continues to grow into a small village on the ballfield near the Parkway’s museums, many of its neighbors and the city want it dismantled. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
The pandemic was the justification Wolf used in his announcement on July 9 of a new executive order extending his eviction and foreclosure moratorium to Aug. 31 statewide. But while advocates statewide are thankful for the governor’s continued moratorium, they know it’s still only a temporary reprieve from eviction. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Landlord-tenant court had been set to reopen on July 6th after a nearly four month interregnum caused by the coronavirus outbreak. But resurgent virus cases and other issues led to a Thursday administrative order from the city’s First Judicial District, extending the shutdown through September 2nd for any “nonemergency business.” | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The Homeowners Association of Philadelphia, or HAPCO, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania over the Emergency Housing Protection Act, which was signed into law by Mayor Jim Kenney last week. That legislation extended an eviction moratorium while creating repayment and diversion plans as alternatives for tenants behind on rent through Aug. 31. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
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