Daily News | West Kensington’s community garden is a refuge for the neighborhood. Advocates are trying to give all Philly neighborhoods similar spaces.
He watched the tax-delinquent, abandoned building next to his North Philadelphia home dilapidate, and eventually get demolished. He cleared the debris from the lot, tilled the soil, and drilled a hole through the wall of his home to run a pipe for a faucet in the lot. Then he started growing tomatoes and potatoes, hosting barbecues and cookouts.
Temple’s lot is one of 2,100 remaining across the city that have U.S. Bank liens on them, according to advocates who have canvassed the city. Owned by the private bank, rather than the city, these lots are at risk of being sold at Sheriff sales and turned over to developers — which community members say is detrimental to the quality of life of lower-income communities of color by depriving them of green space and accelerating gentrification.
“It’s so obvious that we need that,” Viveros said. “Let’s say [developers] take over every single lot, and they build, what do you have? You have cars speeding up, kids cannot play in the streets any longer. And there are no courtyards, and there are no gardens.” “Everything that’s being built is not realistically affordable for longtime residents of the neighborhood like me,” she said.Instead of selling lots to developers, community advocates are urging the city to buy back the remaining U.S. Bank liened-lots and funnel them to the Philadelphia Land Bank, so that community members can afford to buy the land they’ve been taking care of for years.
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