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BREAKING: After, PA’s catastrophic first Covid Rent Relief Program failed to distribute $101M of $175M allocated to help families, like Migreldi, budget documents reveal state legislators transferred the unspent $101M in housing protection to fund PRISONS.
#HousingCrisis
#HousingCrisis
Every single one of those dollars could have helped keep a family off the streets. Instead, it went to fund jails, families continue to be evicted during winter, while the pandemic rages on. It is estimated 1.7 million Pennsylvanians are at risk of eviction.
#EvictionMoratorium
#EvictionMoratorium
It seems like some people purposefully made it difficult for renters to have access to federal COVID relief money. This seems fraudulent. Did @PAGOP purposefully not want renters and small homeowners to get that money? @PA_Spotlight
We applaud the leadership by housing champions in the state, like @Fiedler4Philly, @Innamo and other @PaHouseDems that have advocated to keep renters in their homes, but @PAGOP refused to even bring bills to fix the RRP program up for debate. #HousingCrisis #CovidRelief
Watch Milgredi’s story here https://bit.ly/MRPAmemberMigreldi, a single mother of 3 children, who lives in Reading and lost her job due to the pandemic. She needs COVID Relief Now. #EvictionMoratorium #HousingCrisis #CovidRelief
@GovernorTomWolf, the grave reality is that Pennsylvanians need action now. An emergency directive that places a Statewide moratorium on evictions is imperative to keep families safe and prevent the spread of COVID. Housing is healthcare, now more than ever. #EvictionMoratorium
Yesterday, we sent a letter to @GovernorTomWolf, telling him about our http://bit.ly/MRPACovidImpactReport urging him to reinstate the eviction moratorium and create a new, streamlined, accessible RRP when more federal money comes to PA. After this- is the least he can do.
Every moment these desperate Pennsylvanians reach out to anyone that might have a lead, because shelters are full, non-profit phones are jammed, and they don’t know where they’re going to sleep tonight. #EvictionMoratorium #HousingCrisis #CovidRelief
Pennsylvania tenants and homeowners missed out on roughly $108 million of $175 million in federal coronavirus relief because state programs distributing the funding made it too hard to access, @PA_Spotlight has found. https://twitter.com/pa_spotlight/status/1340337224680955904
