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From YouTube: Councilman Jones speaks before the vote on his resolution for a Sheriff Sale Moratorium 10-4-2018
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From the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held Thursday, October 4, 2018:
Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. delivers remarks before a vote on his resolution "calling on Sheriff Jewell Williams and the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania to impose a moratorium on residential property foreclosure sales until City Council has the opportunity to hold public hearings regarding recently obtained data, which suggests troubling trends in already struggling areas of the City."
Read the amended resolution: http://bit.ly/2BZ8Ngj
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Because
when
the
water
department
came
out,
they
said
that
15
days
to
fix
that
level
and
the
bill
was
going
to
be
64
hundred
dollars
and
for
some
people.
That
is
not
a
big
thing.
They
write
a
check,
they
grab
a
piece
of
plastic
and
they
make
the
payment
for
other
people.
That
is
one
half
of
a
year's
salary
and
they
have
to
choose
between
water
because
it's
going
to
be
cut
off
and
relocation
in
that
relocation
leads
to
abandonment
of
owls.
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That
abandonment
of
house
usually
leads
to
tax
delinquency,
which
leads
to
someone
at
a
sheriff
sale,
taking
advantage
of
the
poverty
within
our
community.
So
these
things
are
linked
together
and
if
we
don't
start
to
address
them,
we're
going
to
walk
down
those
same
streets
and
not
recognize
our
neighbors.
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So
this
moratorium
is
not
designed
to
protect
people
in
the
suburbs
who
have
investment
properties
who
are
taking
advantage
of
folk
I.
Want
my
colleagues
to
know
that
it's
not
about
people
who
are
owning
Lots
and
hoping
for
speculation
to
read
large
profits
from
that
investment.
It
is
for
home,
occupied
individuals
not
to
become
homeless
and
I.
Always
always
tell
my
my
community.
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There,
two
types
of
people-
often
there
are
those
people
like
some
of
my
colleagues-
are
on
my
proponent
that
want
to
save
every
soul
and
I,
love
them
and
then
there's
some
of
my
colleagues
that
just
want
to
save
the
taxpayers,
money
and
I
love
them
too.
But
on
these
kinds
of
compromises,
both
people
and
both
sides
can
win,
because
when
you
make
somebody
homeless
for
sixty
four
hundred
dollars,
you
wind
up
spending
two
hundred
dollars
a
day
in
a
homeless
shelter.
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So
we
want
to
use
our
common
sense
to
push
the
pause
button
as
a
Councilwoman
Blondo
Reynolds
always
talks
about
and
bring
the
stakeholders
banking,
the
revenue
department,
the
community
in
a
room
and
work.
This
thing
out
we're
not
talking
about
forever.
We
are
talking
about
pause,
pushing
the
pause
button,
so
I
move
for
the
adoption
of
the
moratorium
resolution.
Thank
You
mr.
chair.