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City Councilmember Helen Gym speaks at a city council meeting. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Philadelphia’s primary source of legal and social-service support for low-income tenants facing eviction is gearing up to fight for its future this budget season.
Under Mayor Jim Kenney’s proposed budget, the Philadelphia Eviction Prevention Project a city-funded collaboration between Community Legal Services, Clarifi, Legal Clinic for the Disabled, SeniorLAW Center, Tenant Union Representative Network, and Philadelphia VIP would see its budget cut in half.
The mayor’s spending plan includes about $931,000 for the project less than half of the $1.8 million secured for 2020 and the $2.1 million given in the prior year. The proposal doesn’t include any funds specifically for the city’s Right to Counsel initiative, which guarantees low-income tenants an attorney in eviction cases.
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The film is fiction but the story all too familiar to thousands of Americans whose elderly parents have been entrapped by little scrutinised guardianship programmes. Many speak of a sense of helplessness in the face of system rife with the abuse, neglect and profit-driven exploitation of vulnerable people.
The opening scene of I Care a Lot, for example, would strike a chord with Doug Franks. When he and his brother Charles could not agree where their 89-year-old mother Ernestine should live, the dispute led a judge to appoint a guardianship company to take over her care. It was the beginning of a four-year nightmare.
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December 16, 2020
Last Thursday, Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announced time-limited mitigation measures to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in the commonwealth. These mitigation measures went into effect on Saturday, December 12, to protect Pennsylvanians from this devastating virus. Education, labor and health care advocacy organizations and other groups are showing their support for the plans.