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North Central! Rental assistance alert!

Are you or someone you know struggling to pay rent because you’ve lost income due to COVID-19? The City’s PHL Rent Assist program may be able to help.

Phase 4 is now open for applications and even applicants who received funds in Phases 1-3 may apply. Philly renters can apply for rental assistance and help with utilities (up to $2,000 for PGW, $2,000 for PWD, and $2,000 for PECO).

Visit www.PHLRentAssist.org for eligibility criteria and how to apply.

Check out this interesting article on Mutual Aid: https://kairoscenter.org/beyond-mutual-aid/

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Beyond Mutual Aid: Toward the Poor Organizing the Poor | Kairos Projects of survival are woven into a political and moral imagination that emphatically believes in the power of poor people to be agents of change.

"The Philadelphia Historic Commission denied plans for a new police station in North Philadelphia on Friday, as activists in the city and across the country call for cuts to police funding while decrying police brutality following the killing of George Floyd.

In written and oral comments before and during the commission’s meeting Friday, about 130 people voiced their opposition to the proposed $20 million new home of the 22nd police district in the primarily black community."

Historical Commission rejects plans for new North Philly police station Activists in the city and across the country are calling for cuts to police funding while decrying police brutality following the killing of George Floyd.