Fair Housing, Curren Terrace and 900 Sandy St. on Agenda for Tonight's Council Meeting
Council will be continuing a public hearing on the Analysis of Impediments of Fair Housing Choice.
Norristown Municipal Council meets again tonight, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. at Norristown Municipal Hall, 235 East Airy Street.
On the rather full agenda is a continuation of the public hearing on the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Analysis of Impediments of Fair Housing Choice. Consultants from Urban Design Ventures have prepared an extensive report that council will review and discuss. (You can download a full draft of the report in our PDF section.)
There will also be a presentation on the proposed expansion of Curren Terrace and a discussion of a vacating and conveyance ordinance for the proposed development at 900 Sandy Street.
There's still more business on tap for council tonight. Download the full agenda for tonight's meeting in our PDF section.
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Curren Terrace Apartment Homes
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Us Citzen
1:55 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
What Needs to be on that agenda is Some in that council stepping up and taking the Blame for allow these slumb lords to continue to rent illegally. (no certifications, no inspections, ECT) And the fact that you no this is going on and you continue to give them there rental license when it can be easliy revoked. STEP UP instead of always trying to put the blame on the residents of this town.
sots
11:24 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Us Citizen - The slum lords don't get inspected, that's why their properties look the way they do. The blight is due to illegal landlording, not the landlords who comply and pay for their licenses and are inspected. What needs to be done is an all out search for these properties and then fine them and force compliance. I believe only then will you see any obvious change in this town. The code department does a good job but there isn't enough of them and more trained qualified people are needed to handle the enormous problem.
Durable
12:35 am on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Fair housing, smousing... they are talking out of both sides of their mouths. They say oh... you need to reduce subsidized housing yet at the same time they say you can't discriminate against the section 8 people. This is BS... Joel Johnson who is in charge of Section 8 at the county should be fired. He doesn't inspect all the units, it is BS. Also they have a different standard, it is a lesser standard of inspection than Norristown Code uses. They also announce to tenants when they are inspecting so their drug dealing boyfriends have time to leave... how many times has their been a crime from one of these rentals yet Joel doesn't take away the voucher..Oh, that's right, Norristown is not allowed to know who is on a voucher, so when we arrest the drug dealing boyfriend at the address, the voucher girlfriend doesn't have to worry about it getting back to Joel. Interesting that no one that is a resident of Norristown actually sits on the board of the MCHA (they dole out the section 8 vouchers...) Why can't we tell them we don't take anymore Philly vouchers. Those people have to live in Montco for 1 year WITHOUT a voucher BEFORE they can transfer.. that should reduce the number here...