The police-acquired homes are a red herring. They represent a fraction of the properties being rebuilt by developers for new, rich, white renters. Anything that

The police-acquired homes are a red herring. They represent a fraction of the properties being rebuilt by developers for new, rich, white renters. Anything that isn't nailed down in Fishtown, NoLibs, and Kensington is being bought up and developed into condos and apartments. The development is even pushing its way south down Broad Street, with multiple new complexes of apartments and shopping coming online. Even if this seizure bs was not going on, nobody in this area of town will be able to afford to live there in 5 years. And there's no new public housing going up anywhere, because all the contractors are bidding ridiculously inflated prices to build them. This is going to push everyone in the area into the streets, or jail, and push crime into every other corner of the city it can spread to, because nothing is being done to help the people who have to resort to drugs to survive. Philly is still very much a dangerous, desperate place to live.