Advocates have excoriated Norristown officials for “violating the rights of people who are unhoused,” while officials say they’ve grown weary of being the “only municipality” dealing with poverty.
Ameen McCall, 42, holding hands with Stephanie Sena, Villanova professor and homeless advocate, at an encampment in Norristown in June. Sena and others plan to take complaints about how people who are living homeless in the borough have been treated to the United Nations.Local and national advocates plan to charge Norristown officials with human-rights violations of people experiencing homelessness during a meeting at the United Nations next month.Any findings by the U.N.
“Other than affordable housing, is there anything possible for us?” Norristown Municipal Administrator Crandall Jones wrote in February to Jayne Musonye, director of planning and municipal development. Advocates have excoriated Norristown officials for “violating the rights of people who are unhoused,” while officials say they’ve grown weary of being the “only municipality” dealing with poverty, and have bristled at criticism from “outsiders.” That acrimony boiled over in the spring, when City Council President Thomas Lepera yelled and cursed at advocates on a Philadelphia sidewalk, sayingwhere Sena teaches. Lepera has denied cursing; he hasn’t answered Inquirer questions about the busing.
Jones said that Norristown’s median monthly rent for a one-bedroom of $961 is considered affordable by state standards. He complained that other Montgomery County municipalities don’t “carry the same weight” as Norristown in dealing with “intentionally formed, unjust” concentrations of poverty.said in a statement to The Inquirer that residents don’t want “more Section 8 housing or homeless shelters.
County officials made sure to praise “partners and advocates [who] are vital to the mission of ending and preventing homelessness.” Taking exception to the language of the emails, Macher said they were “unbelievably dismissive,” with references to “cleaning out” the “homeless menace.” Officials were “not recognizing that people are human beings,” she said.
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