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From the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held Thursday, November 1, 2018:
Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. (4th District) talks about how lawmakers can use the city's foreclosure data to make better policy decisions.
A
Two
weeks
ago,
I
introduced
a
moratorium
on
share
sales
in
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
with
the
effort
to
try
to
collect
data
that
becomes
information
about
the
intensity
of.
What's
going
on,
I
want
to
thank
the
Sheriff's
Department
I
want
to
thank
the
revenue
department
for
helping
me
to
gather
that
data
and
to
share
it
with
my
colleagues.
So
I
did
a
request
for
information
about
just
municipal
water
and
Tech's
sheriff
sales
in
my
district
I
did
not.
I
cannot
get
the
camera
to
come
in.
A
On
this
information,
there
were
over
300
eminently
in
jeopardy
properties
in
my
district
that
will
come
under
the
gavel
of
sheriff
sales
shortly.
That
wasn't
the
problem
for
me
if
it
was
spread
out
evenly
around
my
district
150,000
people.
That
would
be
one
thing,
but
if
you
can
see
this
map,
information
becomes
data,
it
becomes
data,
becomes
information
and
becomes
useful
when
you
ask
for
it
visually
sometimes.
So,
if
you
look
at
some
of
my
poorest
areas,
which
I
will
not
identify
Blakely,
there
is
an
intense
level
of
activity
there.
A
Some
areas,
you're
very
familiar
with
because
you
gave
them
to
me-
are
equally
in
jeopardy
of
so
many
transactions
in
a
month
or
a
year
that
it
will
radically
change
the
character
of
the
neighborhood.
So
we
need
to
get
in
front
of
this
before
we
have
vanishing,
historically
significant
neighborhoods
and
make
sure
that
people
have
every
opportunity
to
get
in
front
of
it.
We
all
know
that
sometimes
people
can
be
in
denial
about
their
circumstances
and
running
like
an
ostrich,
quick,
their
head
in
the
sand
and
just
hope
it
goes
away.
A
But
what
we
can
do,
working
with
the
city
of
Philadelphia,
with
the
Sheriff's
Department,
is
get
ahead
of
it
and
send
street
teams
to
knock
on
these
people's
doors
and
say
this
problem
won't
go
away
by
itself.
A
B
there's
some
help
for
you.
There
are
programs
that
are
designed
and
funded
in
part
by
this
body
that
can
help
you
save
your
home.
A
For
my
people,
who
hug
and
all
my
colleagues
are
good,
but
some
of
them
really
hug
the
folks
in
jeopardy
and
then
some
of
them
are
more
frugal
and
want
to
count
the
taxpayers,
money
and
well
I
appreciate
both
of
them.
But
this
kind
of
logic
where
we
allow
this
to
go
on
for
a
sixty-four
hundred
dollar
bill,
then
we
create
a
yearly
12,000
dollar
bill
because
they're
homeless
is
Pennywise
and
pound-foolish.
A
So
I'm
going
to
be
bringing
more
information
to
this
body,
so
we
can
make
credible
decisions.
I
would
encourage
every
district
council
person
every
district
council
person
to
get
a
breakdown
of
a
map
to
see
where
it's
going
down.
So
you
can
do
the
outreach
necessary
to
save
your
constituents.
Thank
You.
Mr.
president,
Thank
You
councilman.