Come together with the membership of the Philadelphia Tenants Union to discuss the work we've been doing, the direction for the group and how to get involved. Meet and socialize with other Philadelphia renters while we build strong bonds and tenant power in our city.
Refreshments and childcare will be provided.
If you would like to pay your dues or become a member, please come with $12 cash to pay for one full year of dues. If $12 is a hardship, other arrangements will be made to accomodate anyone without the ability to pay in full.
Philadelphia Tenants Union Membership Meeting
October 11, 2017, 6:30pm - October 11, 2017, 8:30pm
Come together with the membership of the Philadelphia Tenants Union to discuss the work we've been doing, the direction for the group and how to get involved. Meet and socialize with other Philadelphia renters while we build strong bonds and tenant power in our city. Refreshments and childcare will be provided. If you would like to pay your dues or become a member, please come with $12 cash to pay for one full year of dues. If $12 is a hardship, other arrangements will be made to accomodate anyone without the ability to pay in full.
"Despite spending more, young people today are more likely to live in overcrowded and smaller spaces, and face longer journeys to work – commuting for the equivalent of three days a year more than their parents."
Millennials spend three times more of income on housing than grandparents
theguardian.com
David Willetts warns of ‘housing catastrophe’ as he launches study that lays bare intergenerational inequality
"“Ben Carson, don’t be a puppet for Donald Trump!” yelled Barry Thompson, vice president of the Philadelphia Tenants Union. He was advocating for a city law that, like HUD’s own rules, would require landlords to evict tenants only with just cause. The proposed cuts, he said, would do “a lot of harm to the city.”"
HUD Secretary Ben Carson helps open a North Philly high school
philly.com
"People who are well educated are very difficult to manipulate and to control," Ben Carson told students at the new Vaux Big Picture High School, The school represents a partnerships between the Philadelphia Housing Authority, School District, and Big Picture Philadelphia, an education nonprofit.
Philadelphia Tenants Union shared Philadelphia Coalition for Affordable Communities's event.
Tell Ben Carson: No HUD Cuts!
September 19, 2017, 12:30pm - September 19, 2017, 2:30pm
Trump's appointee, Ben Carson is coming to Philadelphia. Details for Carson's "listening tour" have been hard to come by but he is supposed to be at the Vaux Big Picture High School in the "early afternoon" on Tuesday. Join us as we call on Ben Carson for more transparency and more resources for affordable and accessible housing! This is the same Ben Carson that suggested that the government had made things too “cozy” for poor people and who believes poverty is merely a “state of mind.” The same Ben Carson that is asking for a $6.8 billion dollar cut to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This would be a $103,629,417 cut to programs that give thousands of Philly residents a home. Instead of budget cuts, we need to fully fund HUD to guarantee that all people who need them have safe dignified and affordable homes. Join us on Tuesday during the National Renters Week of Action to show Ben Carson how Philadelphians feel about his war on the poor. As soon as we have a time and a location we will publish it here. HUD and the federal government have been failing our communities for decades. Trump and Carson's cuts will have devastating effects on the country's most vulnerable. Senior citizens, people with disabilities, veterans and working poor people with children are all at risk of ending up in homeless shelters because of these egregious cuts.
We set up a table on Kensington and Huntingdon this afternoon to talk to folks about their landlord problems. Day by day, week by week - this is what we do.
Hit us up anytime on Facebook, info@phillytenantsunion.org or 267-753-9637 if you think you could use our help.
"In Philadelphia, gentrification and rising rent-and-home prices have certainly been an issue, but nothing like what they’ve seen in places such as Seattle or San Francisco.
Amazon would change that equation in Philadelphia — and not for good. And a tech takeover would change the fundamental character of the city in ways that most of us would neither expect nor like."
Should Philly screw over its schoolkids to make world's 2nd richest man even richer?
philly.com
Bringing Amazon's second HQ to Philadelphia would mean jobs but also unaffordable housing and dorky tech dudes. Do we really want this?
"Philadelphia’s poverty rate, a stubborn and entrenched indicator of hard times, remained stagnant in 2016, even as poverty declined throughout America.
Philadelphia retained its unenviable designation as the poorest of the 10 most populous cities in America, recording the highest rate of deep poverty — people living at 50 percent of the poverty line or less — among big cities.
Philadelphia’s 2016 poverty and deep-poverty rates were statistically the same as in 2015 — 25.7 percent and 12.2 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, more than 37 percent of the city’s children were living in poverty."
An 'uncomfortable' life: Philly still America's poorest big city
philly.com
A major Census report delivers the bad news, leavened by improvements in Burlington County and elsewhere