Camp Chloe is an autonomous encampment community of residents in South Philadelphia who are currently street homeless.  For years, they have faced continual sweeps from the Philadelphia police force, local businesses, and private landowners.  Residents lose important documents, medications, irreplaceable heirlooms, and the rest of their entire livelihoods when they are forcibly evicted. They have nowhere else to go.  The city provides two options for street based homeless individuals: Shelter, or treatment. Philadelphia doesn't meaningfully address continual barriers that make either an inaccessible option for many.  Barriers include not allowing pets or couples, having strict times they can arrive and must leave by, (which curbs autonomy of employment), how many belongings they are allowed to have with them, continual exposure to violence, communicable diseases, bed bugs, dehumanizing treatment by staff, theft,  assault, overworked and under paid case workers, expectations of use and sobriety, present wounds, judgement and stigma, racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and more.  The residents of Camp Chloe, along with residents and organizers in South Philadelphia, were able to resist the most recent attempt to sweep (3/20) but we need the politicians to agree to the demands that we have set forth, and meet with us to discuss negotiations.  The demands were made by residents and presented in a press release on Monday, March 16th and are as follows: #1: Establish safe sleep sites where people can legally camp. These sites should provide toilets, showers, and trash pick-up, 24/7 non-police security to prevent violence, and a fixed address where outreach case management can find them. #2: Implement a property receipt system. The current model employed by the city is inaccessible and has no accountability. Belongings are stored in distant warehouses and items are discarded by police or private contractors who claim 'they didn't see anything important'. To resolve this, residents are asking all items stored to be logged with a physical receipt given to the owner. Non-police, property advocates should be in charge of this system. #3: Housing-first instead of Shelter-first. Street based homeless individuals should be able to get into permanent supportive housing without going into a shelter or treatment. Encampments are communities. Chosen habitation is safer than randomized habitation. Utilize the $2 billion housing plan (of the Parker administration) to fast track low barrier navigation centers that allow pets and couples. #4: Create an oversight board with people with lived experience.  This would be a paid oversight committee comprised of folks with current/previous lived experience, so that decisions made about encampments are coming from folks who actually live(d) in them, to ensure 'resolutions' are humane. 

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