The Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project is holding a public meeting Thursday, April 14 at 7:30 pm with Housing and Urban Development Region III Administrator Jane Vincent to call for fairness in regional housing policy.
The Statement of Purpose on their website declares:
“The Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project is a regional coalition of community leaders from developed suburbs that have joined together to harness their communities’ power by directly engaging citizens to affect policies and practices that will lead to the stabilization and revitalization of their communities.”
The First Suburbs Project has galvanized communities in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties. Pottstown is a member of this coalition and will be taking a bus to the meeting, which will be held at the JP Mascaro and Sons Building in Audobon. To get on the bus, which will leave Borough Hall at 6:30 pm, call the Borough at 610-970-6511.
To read some prior blog posts about the challenges facing Pottstown and other First Suburbs, check out the following links:
Community Gardens & First Suburbs – the start of a (long) conversation
First Suburbs: Affordable Housing Notes from NJ
First Suburbs – Challenges of Rental Housing
First Suburbs, Keim Street Bridge & Keystone Blvd. Extension
Positively Pottstown blog 