The head of Norristown’s municipal council said he plans to bus people living homeless in the borough to the Villanova University campus.
Thomas Lepera, the municipality’s president/councilman at-large, said he’ll offer $500 gift cards to everyone who boards the bus at the end of the month. The money would come from donations, Lepera has said. Norristown has no homeless shelter.
Asked for comment, a Villanova spokesperson said in a statement, “The work being done by Stephanie Sena is part of her personal advocacy efforts; it is not being done on behalf of, or at the direction of, Villanova University. ... Norristown minister Mike Kingsley, said Lepera told him he wants to be the “Norristown Gov. [Greg] Abbott” of Texas, who has“I warned Tom of the optics of this, but he said he didn’t care,” added Kingsley, director of the Coalition to Save Lives, a nonprofit that does outreach work among un-housed people nationwide.includes a large Villanova logo with the phrase, “Very Much looking forward to the Villanova/Norristown partnership. More News to come shortly.
Mark Boorse, director of program development at Access Services, a nonprofit that runs a homeless outreach program in Norristown, said in an interview, “Reasonable people will see this for what it is: a stunt without a solution.” Sena said she was told by Jones in late May that Norristown would use police to conduct a full-borough sweep of those living homeless in the borough to coincide with PECO’s clear-out.
On May 25, the Community Justice Project , a Harrisburg-based legal aid program representing low-income Pennsylvanians, sent a letter to borough officials calling for an immediate cessation of “all current plans to sweep or to clear homeless encampments in Norristown.”
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