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Building it Better Together: Changing neighborhoods and the impact of gentrification From Philadelphia to the surrounding suburbs, development and redevelopment are bringing with them wholesale change.

The plot thickens to take point breeze 🧐🧐 stay tune as this story keep developing....

Thank you. For cleaning up y’all dog p**p so our children don’t have to play in it.

they’re choosing dogs over our kids! I want the people to come out!!

In Graduate Hospital, a black man found Ku Klux Klan materials left on his car windshield on Wednesday.

What we know about the KKK's latest effort to spread hate in Philly While clarifying they're not illegal, officials called the materials "dangerous."

UPDATE: A wealthy developer and Company stormed the ZBA To Stop Low Income Housing Complex.

POINT BREEZE

A DEVELOPMENT OF about 33 affordable rental homes in Point Breeze moved a step closer to reality Wednesday when the ZBA approved the valances of two vacant parcels to the Women's Community Revitalization Project (WCRP).

One developer and his boss "Howard" now plan to file a lawsuit against city zoning officials, hoping to stop this project.

Women's community revitalization project released renderings of the 33 low-incoming housing units that it wants to build on this land. They say that this will benefit the community because "It's affordable rental homes target it to Point breeze residents." And also " It's an opportunity to fill vacant lot with a productive use."

The Mamie Nichols Townhomes would consist of one- to three-bedroom apartments and townhouses. It is named for a Point Breeze community activist who died in 2009, said Nora Lichtash, executive director of the WCRP.

"This is something we've been working on for the last couple years," Lichtash said Wednesday.

She said Point Breeze has experienced some of the steepest rises in rental prices over the last two years.

"We've been working with Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, who knows we need affordable housing in the city," she said.

One of the parcels approved for zoning variance includes about 13 lots in a block on Taylor Street near Reed, between 24th and 25th Streets.

A frustrated developer mr. Feibush said he and several others will take their case against zoning officials to court to stop this project.

"I support low income housing just not the way that they are building it for 13 million I can build it better. Just give me 10% "

For years, Feibush has been a controversial figure in Point Breeze as a result of the market-rate homes he's been building. He has been accused of driving out long-term residents by gentrifying the area. He just purchased the old SMITH school building which he plans to turn into 120 market rate condos and and also the parking lot of the school in to over 20 three-story houses . He and his company, OCF Realty, have been subject to vandalism and harassment over the years. Feibush unsuccessfully tried to unseat Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, who represents Point Breeze, in the 2015 Democratic primary. In which he just file another lawsuit against.

Lichtash said her organization - which has built other affordable-housing developments, mostly in North Philadelphia - first must raise about $12 million. It will take one to two years to obtain the financing, and about a year after that for construction.

The WCRP is a 30-year-old community-development organization based in Kensington. For this project, it entered into a partnership with the Point Breeze group Citizens Acting Together Can Help (CATCH).

CATCH has been working on a project to help disabled veterans, and one-third of the new homes would be one-bedroom apartments for veterans with special needs.

Betsey Johnson , a Point Breeze long-term resident who has lived in the neighborhood for 50 years, was excited to hear about the new homes, all of which would be rental units.

"I feel good about it, because we need some balance in our community," Beaufort said.

Jonhson said most longtime community residents cannot afford the new housing being built, with price tags of $600,000 and up.

"We've been crying out for affordable housing for years," Johnson said.

She said longtime residents started organizing in 2008 to fight three to four-story homes that were starting to appear. "They were plopping them in a two-story block in the middle of the block, looking like a sore eye," she said.

A representative of 2012 Wharton St. LLC by the name "Howard" , which owns the property across the street from the lots, said it will take this appeal to court.

Lichtash said CATCH and WCRP still moving forward with plans for the town-homes.

The juice is loose.

This is ori's go to lawyer....

Oops! Penn’s Anti-Union Graduate Group Hired, Then Immediately Fired This Far-Right Attorney No Penn Union is now facing backlash from opponents for the choice of legal representation.

It's harder and harder to afford rent

Nowhere in America can a full-time minimum wage worker afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment There is nowhere in this country where someone working a full-time minimum wage job could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment, according to an annual report released Thursday documenting the gap…

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I'm Not Gentrifying This City, It Was My Rich White As***le of a Dad Who Bought the Apartment The sketchy people in this neighborhood are always saying I gentrified this city. But my rich white as***le of a dad is the one who bought this apartment.

Please explain what happen to the 5 year lease ?

It's official, KIND is moving to 1448 S. 17th Street, my very own building!!!

2010 Wharton st

Here's few question we the people of Point Breeze have.

1. The courts REMAND this project on July 1 , 2016 ( REMAND to send back (a case) to a lower court from which it was appealed, with instructions as to what further proceedings should be had. (of a court or magistrate) to send back (a prisoner or accused person) into custody, as to await further proceedings.) Zoning Board of Adjustments (ZBA) when is the community getting a date ?

2. Phila City & County Licenses & Inspections How was permits issued without insurance? After the The tragedy on 22nd and market and the problem you all had with that developer you all made new rules and regulations why hasn't ocf reality been fined 50 million dollars in violations ?

3. Why hasn't a stop work order been issued?

We the people need answers!

Mayor Jim Kenney 6abc Action News NBC10 Philadelphia CBS Philly Billy Penn Philadelphia City Planning Commission Philadelphia Daily News Philadelphia Inquirer FOX 29 900AM WURD Zoning Board of Adjustments (ZBA) Phila City & County Licenses & Inspections Kenyatta Johnson vs Ori Feibush