FAILED

This lapsed resolution would have called for a moratorium on the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority acquiring or condemning occupied properties while Council committees investigated notice to property owners and occupants, ways to challenge mistakes, and whether the condemnations contributed to gentrification. It also would have authorized the committees to consider creating an Office of Homestead Security and to use subpoenas and other investigative powers.

Calling for a moratorium on the acquisition and/or condemnation of any and all occupied properties within the City of Philadelphia by the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia ("RDA") pending the outcome of a joint investigation by the Committees on Law and Government and Legislative Oversight, hereby duly authorized, into the apparent failures of the administration to adequately notify property owners and occupants that their properties are about to be condemned, or to advise them of any manner in which they can seek redress from the administration regarding mistakes that have been made for properties improperly or unfairly designated for acquisition; further authorizing the Committees to determine whether the purpose of said condemnations is to gentrify vast sections of the City, and whether an Office of Homestead Security should be established to help protect citizens of the City against irrational and heartless seizures of their homes.