All Specific Charges are in addition to each committee's "General" Charge in the Council Bylaws.
(Housing) For the charge on housing, next year’s Committee should review and discuss the housing study produced by colleagues in the Penn Institute for Urban Research; explore ways that Penn can address challenges identified by this study and realize its recommendations, potentially including such strategies as rental assistance, home repair assistance, investments in affordable housing, among other potential ways to promote housing affordability and quality in West Philadelphia and Grays Ferry. Two particular campus constituencies whose housing and economic security should be addressed are hourly-paid staff (e.g., in housekeeping, dining, contracted public safety) and students living off-campus, including graduate and international students.
(Neighborhood Stabilization) For the broader charge on neighborhood stabilization, next year’s Committee should convene conversations that support and inform the work of people studying the underlying causes of violence and working on various dimensions of neighborhood stabilization in West Philadelphia and Grays Ferry. The Committee’s membership will ideally include people involved in that work.