Philadelphia Public Housing Scattered Site 2221 St. Albans Street

[mrurbanblight]

Thank you to all who have been active in reporting the drug dealing and other illegal activities that occur in and outside of 2221 SAS. Because of all of your efforts, we have made a change.Those in the upper apt will have to move on 26 Oct. and those below will have to move on 15 Dec. This should have an effect on the drug trade within the neighborhood. I believe that, when this house closes, the drug trade will then be transferred to 2220 SAS so we'll have to keep a close eye on this house.

[burgesspeanut]

Additionally, I'm told that PHA wants the bottom floor tenant to voluntarily vacate. This is doubtful, so we are requesting that PHA have the eviction that day ready to go. There is only one legal resident in the bottom floor apartment, and the others are off lease, including of course the drug dealers who are given full access to the building, with the door left open at all times.

[burgesspeanut]

Bear in mind that this is what PHA calls lease enforcement.

[burgesspeanut]

The eviction should happen at the end of this month, and still, the evicted family is allowing known drug dealers to frequent the property. PHA police do nothing, only the Philly Police Dept. is on top of it. PHA police have zero clue. It's like the PHA police were paid off by drug dealers.

[burgesspeanut]

The eviction should happen at the end of this month, and still, the evicted family is allowing known drug dealers to frequent the property. PHA police do nothing, only the Philly Police Dept. is on top of it. PHA police have zero clue. It's like the PHA police were paid off by drug dealers.

[burgesspeanut]

The eviction should happen at the end of this month, and still, the evicted family is allowing known drug dealers to frequent the property. PHA police do nothing, only the Philly Police Dept. is on top of it. PHA police have zero clue. It's like the PHA police were paid off by drug dealers, that's how much of nothing they do. The PPD laugh at them.

[burgesspeanut]

Good news! PHA evicted one of the tenants involved in the drug trade from this house. Thanks to all the neighbors who helped get info to the authorities. Stay vigilant. We can have a nice neighborhood free of drugs and blight. After the eviction is processed, PHA plans to renovate the house. Check back for updates as to the status of that work.

[burgesspeanut]

This door is usually left open, and the drug dealers come and go. The three pieces of indoor grade lumber, unpainted, uncaulked, are still there, even though people have complained for months now. The screens are still torn, the rag is still stuffed in the bottom window. All you ever can say is "WHAAAT????" Where did the money go?

[allieversayiswat]

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[mrurbanblight]

Although this video was taken seven months ago, the house, today, is exactly in the same condition as it was then. I've contacted PHA on numerous occasions regarding not only the disgusting condition of the house, but also for the numerous drug transactions that take place on a daily and nightly basis. Many of the drug dealers operating from this exact address have serious criminal charges against them and are not even listed on the lease. Yet, they continue to deal while PHA turns a blind eye.

[burgesspeanut]

There is still someone living there who has a felony in the top floor apartment as of the last time neighbors complained to PHA about drug activity. There was to be an eviction hearing for the top floor resident, and the result of that hearing I'm not up to date on. Will post more soon.

[evildingo1]

WE need to police our towns ourselves, the way we see fit. If there is a drug dealer or child molester or murderer in your neighborhood. Band together and evict the trash yourselves. Do what ever you need to do short of burning them out.

We all know the police, state or feds aren't going to help. So it falls upon us to be societies keepers.

[burgesspeanut]

This is the kind of thing that gets out and loses elections for Democrats. After NJ and MA, can the Democrats just continue to ignore federally subsidized urban blight and the obvious waste of taxpayer money?

[burgesspeanut]

PHA's Scattered Site Program wants Recovery Act money, but look at how they are doing now. This is not a "shovel ready" program; this is a deeply troubled remnant of the failed federal housing programs of the bad old days.

[mrurbanblight]

Not only is this house in deplorable condition, but it is also a warehouse for convicted felons--many of them on the PHA tenant lease!. Convictions include armed robbery with a weapon and various assaults within the neighborhood. PHA refuses to oversee not only the condition of the house itself, but also the tenants and the many squatters that are currently living and dealing drugs from this address.

[burgesspeanut]

This is what passes for "renovation" in the PHA Scattered Site program. This is the "renovation" that PHA's Scattered Site representatives referred to at the SOSNA Zoning Committee Meeting in December,2009. The speaker mentioned this address as "one of the properties that we just sent someone out on to do renovations." Is this some kind of joke?