Protect Ya Crib

Protect Ya Crib is a financial support and literacy program to empower, educate, and support Philly residents in maintaining and preserving homeownership. Funded with a grant from the Equity Research Cooperative, our first Protect Ya Crib cohort in 2023 focused on homeowners in Strawberry Mansion, the North Philadelphia neighborhood where Down North Pizza is located. To help counteract forces that increasingly push out working-class Black homeowners from gentrifying neighborhoods, Protect Ya Crib paid the property taxes for eleven homeowners in Strawberry Mansion and assisted these residents to benefit from the City of Philadelphia’s Homestead Exemption to reduce the taxable portion of their assessed property values. We also held a community event at Down North Pizza that brought these residents together to understand pathways to residential displacement and ways to combat them.

Do you need support protecting ya crib?

Come by the pizza shop and talk to us:
2804 W Lehigh Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19132

Or contact us at info@downnorthfoundation.org

Thursday: 12 - 9 pm
Friday: 12 - 10 pm
Saturday: 12 - 10 pm
Sunday: 12 - 8 pm