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Philly, PATCO respond to Center City transit station encampment with social service
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Homeless encampment growing at PATCO stop in Center City
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People with no homes to go to pitch their tents on the concourse at the 16th Street PATCO station to get out of the cold. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The National Weather Service predicts that freezing temperatures will give way to snow in the Philadelphia region this weekend, so area homeless shelters and outreach workers have geared up to try to get people safely indoors.
With community contagion of the coronavirus still rampant, however, local officials said that requires a balancing act.
“[There’s] a very sticky dilemma. Is it safer for people to be out on the street in these really really cold temperatures, or if push came to shove, being exposed to other people?” said Liz Hersh, Director of Homeless Services for the City of Philadelphia. “Fortunately we haven’t had to make those choices so far.”
As Philly’s COVID-19 hotels empty, some residents say they’re dismayed by conditions in their new accommodations Aubrey Whelan, The Philadelphia Inquirer © CHARLES FOX/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Dave Daniels, Sr., a resident of the city s COVID hotel for vulnerable people in Center City, sits outside the hotel - a Holiday Inn - earlier this month. The city is closing the hotels down as federal funding runs out.
This week, with federal funding running out for Philadelphia’s COVID hotels where vulnerable people with nowhere else to quarantine have been staying since the spring officials are moving dozens of residents to cheaper accommodations elsewhere in the city.
The Holiday Inn Express and Fairfield Inn in Center City were used as temporary housing for homeless people at risk of contracting COVID-19 to keep them in a non-congregate setting seen as safer than a shelter. Since the coronavirus prevention sites opened in the spring, they peaked at 260 residents, and were down to 160 on Monday, deputy managing director Eva Gladstein told reporters in a news conference.
She said the move-outs were to long-term housing that the city arranged or helped them secure with other agencies. The city helps them get transportation to the new unit, furniture and a TV for the new place.
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