Daily News | Protesters rallied for affordable housing as Philadelphia grapples with eviction-related shootings
in the leg while enforcing a lockout — the third time such an officer fired a weapon during an eviction in Philadelphia since March. A spokesperson for the First Judicial District said Wednesday that the court-appointed landlord-tenant officer, lawyer Marisa Shuter, and her employees and contractors who enforce evictions would not conduct lockouts until they had received the most up-to-date training on use of force and de-escalation.
Faison was unaware of these tensions, which began brewing in April when another landlord-tenant officer shot a 35-year old woman in the head . When told of them, his voice became angrier, but he wasn’t particularly surprised.Other protesters, like Armando Jimenez, were keen to the issue. Jiminez said it was impossible to ignore that landlords paid Shuter’s office to contract for its services.
“They’re profiting off of poor people,” Jiminez said. “And we can’t ignore the race aspect of it — Blacks, Indigenous, Latinos, Asian folks. It’s a shame.” Saturday’s rally was less focused on the shootings than the April gathering outside Shuter’s Center City office,Instead, Democratic politicians like Pennsylvania State Sen. Nikil Saval and Philadelphia’s District 3 Councilwoman Jamie Gauthier touched on the broader issue of housing affordability.
While Philadelphia has enjoyed lower rents than other large metropolitan cities, lower incomes and poverty have nonetheless increased the housing burden. Nearly three in five residents — and particularly Black Philadelphians — said affordable housing should be a top priority for the city,
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