WE THE PEOPLE are ALL Hungry and Homeless Until NOBODY is...
5 PILLARS OF ENDING HUNGER
AND HOMELESSNESS
WHAT IF...
WE THE PEOPLE
could work
together in Ending Hunger
and Homelessness
in Philadelphia
by July 4th, 2026?
DID YOU KNOW?
GREATER PHILADELPHIA
HUNGER REPORT 2022
Food Insecure Philadelphians: 300,000+
Sheltered Homeless: 3,701
Unsheltered: 788*
*HUD data as reported by OHS via the PIT
(Point in Time count).
NOTE: Virtually every person and organization helping our Neighbors in Need agree the actual number is several times larger - at least two or three times as large
Philadelphia spends a quarter of a billion dollars each year to house and feed prisoners,
and less than a third of that
to house and feed roughly the same number of unhoused people.
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What is the message to our Neighbors in Need?
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Commit a crime, and you get a bed and 3 hot meals a day.
Obey the law, and go hungry and cold.
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FOR EVERY HOMELESS PERSON IN PHILADELPHIA,
THERE ARE OVER
6 VACANT HOMES
MISSION MATTERS
Maximizing the impact of Philadelphia regional poverty, hunger and homelessness Not-for-Profits by engaging with City, State & Federal Government agencies, health systems, faith-based organizations, K-Grad schools, foundations, philanthropy, businesses, unions, community development groups, chambers of commerce and everyday Philadelphians, to foster coordination & collaboration and deliver technology, infrastructure, value-added services, and supply chain best practices.