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.)
Housing advocates have slammed the city for repeated attempts to clear out several homeless camps, including one near the Convention Center, I-676 and another at Philadelphia International Airport during the coronavirus pandemic. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The Philadelphia-based organization provides refuge for young adults experiencing homelessness through various programming and outreach services. Forget Me Knot offers housing, meals, health services, educational programming and various forums to empower and support young people in need. | From: Metro Philadelphia (Read more.)
Homeless groups set up their tents on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in hopes of getting calling for government action on housing amid COVID-19 and BLM protests. | From: AL DÍA (Read more.)
Nearly a week of citywide curfews, closures, and general commotion have created new challenges for people experiencing homelessness and the outreach workers who serve them. | From: Kensington Voice (Read more.)
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the deep health, economic and racial disparities in our nation. Nowhere have these disparities been more apparent than with homelessness. It has never been clearer that housing is healthcare. Those who are homeless lack the most fundamental health protections a home provides. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
City officials began clearing out about 50 homeless individuals from Philadelphia International Airport Tuesday morning, offering COVID-19 tests to anyone who asked to be transported to a shelter. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Capitulating to pressure from advocates for the homeless, the Kenney administration agreed Thursday to test people living in an encampment at Philadelphia International Airport for the coronavirus before placing them in shelters. City officials had planned to break up the group of 50 to 100 individuals on Friday morning without testing. But after advocates and those who provide housing and services for the homeless threatened a lawsuit, the city decided to hold off on dispersing the encampment until Tuesday, after what it described as “rapid testing” is completed. | From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Read more.)
Officials at Philadelphia International Airport had initially planned Friday to remove the between 50 and 100 homeless people who have been sleeping at a baggage claim area underutilized during stay-at-home orders. But airport and city officials agreed to wait until Tuesday after homeless advocates threatened to file a lawsuit if the people were moved to shelters without being tested. | From: NBC 10 Philadelphia (Read more.)
Homeless service providers and advocates are contemplating suing the City of Philadelphia to prevent it from moving homeless people living at Philadelphia International Airport into shelters on Friday without first testing them for the coronavirus. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
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