Daily News | UC Townhomes residents issue demands, including new ownership to protect their homes
The residents of University City Townhomes laid out their demands and plans Wednesday for new ownership of the low-income housing complex to keep it for the people who have lived there for years.facing displacement from the affordable housing complex
The group’s list of demands included having the townhomes’ owners, IBID Associates, extend the affordable housing contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for two years and for the owners to sell the property to a third party that would keep the complex as affordable housing.
“Stand up to the developers and stand in with our communities,” said Rasheda Alexander, a 14-year townhome resident and tenant representative. “There is money through state, federal, and local government to preserve affordable housing that is being lost at a historical pace in Philly. Our demand and our fight is to create community control of the people’s townhomes by purchasing the property.
After leaving City Hall, the group marched to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where they said developers were holding a gathering. They carried their signs into the building’s lobby.