Philly House — Local services in Philadelphia

They say that they take things serious that things are bad ... for so long ... they still stay the same. Click thumbs up if you care seriously & for people in need. They brake there own rules here. They are beyond rude & cuss & call people stupid. They have little to no respect & will at a whim fail to give belongings back, in the morning after breakfast & tell you to show up at six PM. If your a little past that, like 10 min. they tell people to stay out & they loose there bed. Philadelphia & the internet do not tell the truth on what most people face in all reality & lie like many places. I will say this, 42yrs & with approximately 4 decades of experience with homelessness off and on. People who may experience abusive living situations may be lost. The Unites States has little honor or just dignities for the majority of abused , disabled , those in recovery and / or homeless. Civil law is , & has been far to difficult & weak to come close to justice for those afflicted with these adversities. The war on terror has failed. So far the same threats still exist strong to this day. There is no pill to fix this , or shrink talk to a solve. There is no prayer to help. That's keeping it real. It is not godly here. People using religious talk to hide from the truth & real work. God helps those who help them selves & there people. It truly saddens me to see & know that there are so many people who's ideologies have left so many with no hope & no homes & next to no justice. To many fakes, too many flakes. So many dead & lost & forgotten, also in accidents because the leadership was educated to idiocracy & oppressions. The ultimate down. It is not wise to think our leadership will go far beyond there educations. People who , when a challenge presents it's self, that say "I can't do anything about that. I don't have the power." seem to get little to nothing done to make the real differences necessary to count, to make the USA great again. There is no excuse for such evils. To many people going bad & hardly going anywhere fast. Is the work of our times. Spread to thin , not in gear , not working. Equals future failure. Equals disease as an epidemic of , dose not work. We as a people must go the distances necessary for real successes for a brighter tomrrow & not kick people when there down or... Coming up.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." quote from Martin...

Let's begin with some positives, it's a pretty clean place to lay your head and safe as well. They provide meals and toiletries as needed and also have programs to help motivate and heal the mind. I want to single out particularly the poetry sessions that took place once a week. Very kind and endearing volunteers that came through for that. There was access to water all thru the night and access to laundry every week for free. Now some of the rules where a bit much. Only being able to smoke outside 3times a day at designated times or you were stuck outside until meal times. The staff for the most part were great! Very down to earth and respectful. Except for three key employees who seemed to give me the cold shoulder Everytime I needed something. For w.e reason I cannot speculate to that. One of the three refused to hear me out at all the one night I was late coming back from work do to the busses and my phone was off so I couldn't call. He didn't want to hear anything I had to say saying I had to come back in the morning. Where was I supposed to go? So I waited and then in the morning got my things and left because one of the other three I mentioned was the case manager, and he refused to help me with any of my requests up to that point. Not sure why, he just was not an accommodating person. So all in all it's a place to lay your head and to eat but if your looking for help or think you'll get a second chance should you be late your wrong. They treat you as more of a number...

Okay I am very greatful and thankful but to be perfectly HONEST I was lied to about the meal being Beef when in Fact it was very much so pork I stated over and over that I do not eat Pork maybe my Dhikr beads gave it away but they insisted on feeding me pork and lieing to me and my Mother about it being pork not only did they continue to try and convincing me it was beef when I knew it was not when I went to ask for something else like a penut butter sandwich they told me that there was nothing else I did not eat it because I did not trust them the volunteer got angry with me and asked me what did I mean when I asked her could she give me a sandwich just in case it was pork she made me feel like I had no choice that I had to eat it when in fact I did have a choice but this was a religious organization that cleary did not respect my beliefs nor did they keep it 💯 if there were 0 stars I would rate them a Capital 0 not ok my Mother got 😷 from eating the pork and I am not happy about this because these places like this feel as if they have the power to lie about this because they are feeding the people but in fact they had no right to treat me nor anybody like this the power and control of abuse has got to stop just because people are homeless you have no right to treat them with good ol fashioned Respect & Dignity...