'Building new homes — instead of maintaining existing ones — doesn’t give families more access to affordable homes,' Layla Sayed writes. 'Instead, it destabilizes and displaces low-income families, leaving them with nowhere to go.'
, and it can take up to four years to receive any attention. The Basic Systems Repair Program is a great start, and with further resources and better implementation, it can drastically help the housing crisis.
Other organizations are seeking a solution, such as the Healthy Rowhouse Project, which is working with city officials and nonprofit partners to create a better way to offer loans and grants that let people stay in their homes. But organizations like these cannot take the place of a full government initiative. This is a public issue, and our government officials are not doing enough to combat this problem.
“Our brick rowhomes are those houses that the wolf couldn’t blow down in the three little pigs story,” Karen Black, the founder of the Healthy Rowhouse Project, told Next City in 2015. But it’s not wolves we need to worry about. It’s developers and the lack of government intervention.Layla Sayed is a freshman majoring in urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
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