New Housing Campaign Begins

[5-27-00]: While others prepare for picnics this Memorial Weekend, members of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union launch HOUSING TAKE-OVER CAMPAIGN, due to another large number of homeless mothers and children having nowhere to live in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia's homeless crisis continues to grow while the city prepares for the Republican National Convention. Lanterns, food, pagers and bail money are all needed to keep these children off the streets.

Please send what you can today. Organize for July 31st.

[5-28-00]: Today an eviction began with a mother and her four children being thrown out of an abandoned HUD house.

This mother works full time for a real-estate agency; she has 4 children, the oldest is nine, the youngest is one. This weekend brings no picnic for this mother and her children.

Thanks to KWRU and our underground railroad we will continue to house this family and others.

It's time now to move on to yet another house, open the doors and keep these children off the street. Putting children on our streets should be against the law. Philadelphia continues to have more abandoned houses than homeless people; we continue to ask why we allow people to be homeless when we live in a land of plenty.

We need your help.