North Philadelphia meeting addresses gentrification (White people destroying neighborhoods)

Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 03/03/2014 | VALERIE RUSS

[Kid Shelleen]

PEOPLE FROM all over Philadelphia came together Saturday to tell their stories about gentrification at the Church of the Advocate in North Philadelphia.

Organizers had issued fliers calling for an "emergency town hall" to confront a "crisis facing black Philadelphia: the demise of our neighborhoods."

In gentrification, some neighborhoods are targeted for revitalization - but the new development leads to huge rent or property-tax increases that often force longtime residents out.

[Kid Shelleen]

Crisis in the hood !! Is it drug dealers, failing schools, crime, vandalism, unemployment, illegal immigrants ???? Nooooo, It's white people moving in ..

[angcat]

Good lord at every turn the world is upside down!

[Kid Shelleen]

**** Philly Metro Ping ****

[Army Air Corps]

The White Devils must be stopped! /s

[FreeAtlanta]

[2ndDivisionVet]

[RightGeek]

This is a joke, right? Who would want to live in Philadelphia these days?

[A_Former_Democrat]

Unreal After decades of destroying neighborhoods, shopping areas, public schools

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The honkeys are coming. The honkeys are coming

[Defiant]

"destroying neighborhoods".

What with their yard work, painted houses and refusing to burgle the neighbors. Why, I've heard that in some of those homes, there are TWO parents inside. What is that city coming to?

[A_Former_Democrat]

“Ultimately, she said, the activists plan to appeal to the United Nations that gentrification is a human-rights violation - when economic-development policies displace one ethnic group with another.”

ROFLMAO

[Billthedrill]

Why, I've heard that in some of those homes, there are TWO parents inside.

Disgusting heterosexuals. I thought we'd wiped them all out by now.

[PapaBear3625]

The real crisis would be the loss of political control if too many white people move back into Philly.

[VerySadAmerican]

They want money.

[PapaBear3625]

ping

[MeshugeMikey]

Sister Empress Phile, one of the organizers, said the group will host more town halls and ask for more public meetings, including congressional hearings.

Ultimately, she said,the activists plan to appeal to the United Nations that gentrification is a human-rights violation -

I think we already have our winning bonehead of the week candidate

[Joe 6-pack]

I knew this was coming after the Spike Lee remarks. It’s just a matter of time before we start hearing the term, “ethnic cleansing,” applied to these situations.

[autumnraine]

Demise of our neighborhood?

Why do they get neighborhoods but white people don’t ?

[freeangel]

“Organizers had issued fliers calling for an “emergency town hall” to confront a “crisis facing black Philadelphia: the demise of our neighborhoods.”

Oh my! When white people did this they were called racists.

[Ed Condon]

If it wasn’t for the slums, where would they put the “truck routes”?