Campaign
This report, released in February of 2024, guides PCAC's current campaign. The campaign goal includes rethinking the way the city uses housing funds.
Defending Our Right To Stay
1 out of every ____ households earns less than $30,000 per year.
3 - This is about 200,000 households
This coalition of community, disability, faith and labor have joined together to pass laws that address the city's housing affordability crisis.
What is Philadelphia Coaliton for Affordable Communities
Roxanne Jones
This term describes a situation when a family spends more than they can afford on housing. This creates a situation of forcing families to decide between paying rent or other necessities like food and medical bills.
Cost - Burden Housing
1 out of __ homeowners and 1 out of __ renters in Philadelphia are paying more than they can afford on housing.
1 in every 3 homeowners.
1 in every 2 renters.
The Philadelphia coalition for affordable communities won campaigns to create new sources of funding for affordable housing. Yet these funds are not being used for ________.
Philadelphian's who need them most. (The Housing Justice Campaign.)
This multi-talented West Philadelphian was a renowned singer, actor, and civil rights activist. His best role was in Shakespeare's Othello.
Paul Robeson
This is used to determine eligibility for housing programs, and includes the surrounding counties where the median household incomes are up to double the city's (our county) median income.
AMI
The cost for shelter per year for a family is
a. $40,500
b. $60,500
c. $84,500
PCAC's housing justice campaign will help to address the issue of communities being broken apart. Since 2000, 32% of black residents have been pushed out of their neighborhoods. The housing justice campaign is ________.
Defending our right to stay. Keep our communities strong!
A prominent educator and civil rights leader in 19th-century Philadelphia, this man fought for African American suffrage and was tragically murdered in 1871 during a voter rights dispute."
Octavius Catto
Too many of the city's housing programs are not serving Philadelphia's most vulnerable families. Only one program is designed to serve these families.
What is Housing for Homeless.
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These elected officials must pass a law to ensure that the city spends more housing dollars on those who need them most.
Philadelphia City Council
This woman made history in 1938 when she became the first African American woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, serving in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Crystal Bird Fauset