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Philadelphia Bearing colorful signs and banners, thousands of activists from dozens of U.S. cities marched around Philadelphia City Hall on July 22 demanding “Housing now!” The event was part of the national convention of the Center for Popular Democracy. Speakers from Philadelphia’s housing movement, including Darlene Foreman and Mel Hairston…
May Day — International Workers Day — commemorates the 1886 struggle in Chicago for the eight-hour day. Despite its radical origins in U.S. labor history, May Day has to a large extent been supplanted by moderate events on Labor Day in September, a holiday designed to dampen class struggle and…
Philadelphia Leading chants of “we saved the peoples townhomes” and “housing is a human right1” activist Krystal Strong opened a press conference and rally attended by University City Townhomes residents and supporters at 40th and Market streets on April 21. After a two-year struggle to stop the demolition and displacement…
A lawsuit settlement will allow IBID Associates to demolish and sell the University City Townhomes in West Philadelphia, but a portion of the land will be given to the city to build 70 affordable housing units. IBID Associates also must pay $3.5 million to the tenants being displaced by its decision to end its affordable housing contract with HUD.
As rents skyrocket, cities can’t afford to lose low-income housing like West Philadelphia’s UC Townhomes.