Margaret: As a homeowner, you got water, taxes, electric, if I need the roof fixed I have to call somebody. You got the whole thing. And I get a water bill every month now. Back in the day, I used to get a water bill once every three months. They'd bill every three months. Not every month like we do now.
Ali: Do you think it costs more now, getting the bill once a month, than it did when it was three every three months.
Margaret: Oh yeah. They call it saving us by breaking it down. It's not helping.
"Interview with Marget Clark." Climate Ready Philly. August 2019.
Ali Kenner, 13 March 2021, "Interview Excerpt with Margaret Clark", contributed by Alison Kenner, The Energy Rights Project, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 13 March 2021, accessed 30 December 2024. https://energyrights.info/content/interview-excerpt-margaret-clark
Critical Commentary
This excerpt was taken from an interview conducted with Margaret Clark and her lifelong friend Diane, who identified as Black women in their sixties. At the time, both women had lived in North Philadelphia for more than fifty years. They had attended a 2019 Climate Ready Philly workshop and volunteered to partipate in the interview project. The interview discussed the hardships associated with owning a home, social change, and neighborhood scale flooding.