Mass evictions are growing more common in Philly. Here’s how to fight them.
“The mass eviction of low-income residents is a particularly pernicious form of eviction that has major health and economic implications for families, and which destroys economic, cultural, and racial diversity in communities where it occurs. The forced displacement of tenants from their homes and neighborhoods has a direct impact on the health of families, who must then find housing in cheaper, more impoverished areas, often having to travel farther and spend more to maintain their employment, health, and schooling for their children. This crisis only further aggravates the city’s shortage of affordable housing—existing affordable housing units are lost forever when mass displacements happen. This, in turn, puts pressure on resources and housing stock elsewhere in the city and works to concentrate poverty and increase segregation in particular neighborhoods.”