Honoring and recognizing the work and accomplishments of the Stadium Stompers, whose dedication to advocating for the North Philadelphia community and for housing rights for all people have helped secure neighborhood stability for communities in the City of Philadelphia.

Honoring and recognizing the work and accomplishments of the Stadium Stompers, whose dedication to advocating for the North Philadelphia community and for housing rights for all people have helped secure neighborhood stability for communities in the City of Philadelphia. WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers was founded in 2015 as a movement of community members, students, and faculty who came together in opposition to a proposed football stadium on Temple University’s campus at Broad and Norris; and WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers brought the North Philadelphia community into the public discussions about the stadium proposal, opening up the space to involve the surrounding community in the planning process, which at the time did not have a Neighborhood Advisory Committee, Registered Community Organization, or Community Development Corporation, ; and WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers, out of concern for a new stadium’s impact on neighboring quality of life, including restricting nursing home road access, exacerbating growing traffic problems, raising property values and taxes that would displace longtime residents, opposing the use of public funds for stadium development, and lacking accompanying affordable housing, among other reasons, championed these issues with the developers on behalf of their community; and WHEREAS, Stadium Stompers served as a connection point between the surrounding Temple community, students, faculty, and the rest of the Philadelphia public to discuss and work with each other…