We Agape You Inc.

03/17/2026

🌟 **We Agape You: Serving Those Who Served Us** 🌟

At We Agape You, our mission is to make a difference in the lives of our veterans. With 26 veterans lost to su***de each day, we are committed to preventing these tragedies through our nonprofit efforts.

We are excited to offer a range of services to our community, including:
🌱 Lawn Care & Landscaping
🌳 Tree Removal & Trimming
🏡 Exterior House Cleaning & Haul Away
🔧 Home Repairs & Handyman Work

💵 **We will beat any quoted price!** 💵

All proceeds from our services go directly toward supporting veterans in need. By choosing We Agape You, you're not just getting top-quality services; you're also making a significant impact on the lives of those who have served our country.

📞 Contact us today to get a quote and learn more about how you can help prevent veteran su***des. Let's work together to create a better future for our heroes.

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🌟 **We Agape You: Serving Those Who Served Us** 🌟

At We Agape You, our mission is to make a difference in the lives of our veterans. With 26 veterans lost to su***de each day, we are committed to preventing these tragedies through our nonprofit efforts.

We are excited to offer a range of services to our community, including:
🌱 Lawn Care & Landscaping
🌳 Tree Removal & Trimming
🏡 Exterior House Cleaning & Haul Away
🔧 Home Repairs & Handyman Work

💵 **We will beat any quoted price!** 💵

All proceeds from our services go directly toward supporting veterans in need. By choosing We Agape You, you're not just getting top-quality services; you're also making a significant impact on the lives of those who have served our country.

📞 Contact us today to get a quote and learn more about how you can help prevent veteran su***des. Let's work together to create a better future for our heroes.

02/05/2026

!!! Why Inaction Pays: How the City of Reading Benefits While Crime and Veteran Homelessness Grow !!!

After reviewing 2026 statistics from NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) on veteran su***de, homelessness, crime, and access to mental health counseling in Reading, PA, we asked a hard question:

Why would the City of Reading refuse solutions that prevent crime, renovate blight, create employment, and provide housing and mental health counseling for veterans?

Current data reviewed:
https://www.nami.org/Statistics/Veterans-Homelessness-Mental-Health-2026
https://www.nami.org/Local-Data/Pennsylvania/Reading-PA

After reviewing the data, we asked ChatGPT a neutral question:

“What possible benefit does a city gain by refusing donated blighted properties that would be rehabilitated to reduce crime, house veterans, and provide mental health services?”

The answer was unsettling — because there ARE benefits. Just not to the public.

HOW THE CITY BENEFITS FROM DOING NOTHING

1. Grant revenue depends on the problem existing.
Blight, homelessness, and crime generate ongoing grant eligibility. If properties are donated, rehabilitated, and removed from blight lists, the City risks losing blight remediation grants, crime prevention funding, homelessness dollars, and redevelopment allocations. Solving the problem can reduce future funding. Maintaining it keeps money flowing.

2. Blighted properties are financial leverage.
Vacant and condemned buildings are not just neglected structures — they are assets used to justify grants, leverage redevelopment deals, and control land disposition. Once a property is donated and privately rehabilitated, that leverage disappears.

3. Inaction avoids financial and political risk.
Approving real solutions requires inspections, approvals, oversight, and accountability. Doing nothing costs nothing upfront — even if it costs the community everything long-term.

4. Accountability is expensive.
Allowing nonprofits to succeed exposes years of preventable decay and raises uncomfortable questions: Why wasn’t this done sooner? Why did it take outsiders to fix it? Inaction avoids those questions.

5. Supportive housing threatens the status quo.
Housing veterans with mental health support reduces emergency calls, lowers police and hospital use, and stabilizes neighborhoods. That saves taxpayer money — but it also reduces justification for future emergency funding.

THE BRUTAL REALITY

There is no public benefit to refusing donated properties that would be rehabilitated at no cost to the City.

The benefits of inaction are:
• continued grant eligibility
• retained control
• avoided accountability
• avoided precedent
• political quiet

The cost is paid by:
• homeless veterans
• families living next to blight
• neighborhoods plagued by crime
• taxpayers funding emergencies instead of prevention

We Agape You is not asking for money.
We are not asking for special treatment.

We are asking why saving lives, preventing crime, and rebuilding neighborhoods is less desirable than maintaining conditions that justify funding.

If solving the problem threatens the system that profits from the problem…

Then who is the system really serving?

01/28/2026

Eleven years ago this month, we took then-Mayor Vaughn Spencer and local media straight into the veteran/tent cities so they could see — with their own eyes — the inhumane conditions people were forced to survive in. You can view that video by clicking here: https://youtu.be/Fv9-WswcvR0?si=SuL0R8Hn9UJypp2h

What we are seeing TODAY is worse.
Much worse.

In freezing temperatures, men and women are living in tents soaked with ice, surrounded by open drug use, violence, human trafficking, untreated mental illness, and crime. These are not “camps.” These are open-air disaster zones where people are exploited, assaulted, and left to die slowly in plain sight.

This is not a hidden problem. It is alongside RACC on River Rd.
This is a failed system on full display.

While thousands of vacant, boarded-up properties sit rotting across our city — attracting crime, decay, and blight — human beings are freezing in tents just blocks away. This is not a lack of resources. It is a lack of action.

We are formally inviting the current administration and city officials to do what leadership requires:
👉 Come see it firsthand.
👉 Walk the tent cities.
👉 Look people in the eye.

Then come sit at the table with We Agape You and work on a REAL solution:
• Transitioning vacant properties into immediate housing
• Ending the pipeline of exploitation in the streets
• Restoring safety, dignity, and accountability

This is a humanitarian crisis.
This is a public safety crisis.
This is happening right now.
If you can’t look — ask yourself why.
If you can look — then it’s time to act.

01/16/2026

We Agape You President Randy Simmons spoke during the public comment section of the Reading Redevelopment Authority meeting on 12/18. He spoke on the rehabilitation of blighted and condemned properties in the City. You can see the recording below if you'd like to hear what was said.

01/06/2026

It’s a travesty that our efforts to fix blight in the City of Reading—to reduce crime, drug abuse, human trafficking, and homelessness—are met with constant resistance.
We are offering solutions at NO COST to the City:
✔️ Rehabilitating blighted properties
✔️ Creating jobs
✔️ Providing housing
✔️ Delivering mental health counseling and support services for veterans and those in need

Yet the Redevelopment Authority and City Commissioners publicly claim they want to partner with us, while actively blocking us at every turn.
Now, after winning a Right-to-Know appeal, we were provided fraudulent and inaccurate documents in the City’s official response—leaving us no choice but to take legal action.

This petition exists because transparency, accountability, and public trust matter.
We will not stop advocating for our community, our veterans, or the people harmed by blight and government inaction.

📸 See the petition to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleads Mandamus to compel them to turn over accurate records . Tomorrow our legal department will be filing this in the court and will serve all parties

12/31/2025

We have officially asked Governor Josh Shapiro, Senator Judy Schwank, and Reading City Council to step in after the City of Reading provided us with a false list of condemned properties in response to our Right-to-Know Appeal — an appeal we won.

📌 The list — sent by Jonathan Tinoco, Administrative Assistant, City Law Department — stated these homes were condemned and taken over by the City.
📌 We contacted the listed owners and NONE of the properties are condemned.
📌 This reckless misinformation has thrown innocent homeowners into panic — people were told their homes were condemned and could be taken by eminent domain, when that is completely untrue. It has created fear, chaos, and outrage in our community and has shattered trust in the City’s ability to maintain accurate and lawful public records.

Governor Shapiro personally directed us to work with our local government to remediate blight and reduce homelessness — something We Agape You has successfully done in other counties for 14 years. Yet Reading, which struggles with the highest blight, violent crime, addiction, homelessness, and human trafficking in the region, is the only county giving us inaccurate and unlawful lists.
🇺🇸 With 26 veterans dying by su***de every day, we offered to rehab these neglected properties to build housing and employment programs at ZERO cost to the City or taxpayers.
Instead, the City is pushing back — while neighborhoods continue to suffer.

We will not stop fighting for transparency, accountability, and a safer Reading for families, veterans, and our entire community.

12/29/2025

In November, we won a Pennsylvania State Right-to-Know Appeal forcing Reading to hand over their list of condemned properties. They complied… but now we’ve discovered the list is FALSE.
These properties ARE NOT condemned at all — meaning the City provided improper and unlawful information in an official response from Jonathan Tinoco.
We’ve sent emails today to demand answers. See below. 👇

12/22/2025

At the December 18th Reading Redevelopment Authority meeting, We Agape You publicly commented on multiple condemned and certified blight properties and formally asked about donation pathways to nonprofits so these homes could be rehabilitated and returned to productive use.

In response, David Barr and the Reading Redevelopment Authority advised that the City’s donation process is lengthy and complex, and that it would be faster and more practical for us to contact property owners directly to discuss their intentions for these properties.

Based on that guidance, we are now doing exactly that.

12/18/2025

Today, December 18th at 5:00 PM, I will be at City Hall in the Penn Room speaking on the public record at the Reading Redevelopment Authority meeting on behalf of We Agape You, DBA Veteran Su***de Prevention – 26 Per Day.

For over five years, Reading has refused to allow our nonprofit to rehabilitate excessively blighted properties at no cost to the City or taxpayers. During that same time, Reading has remained #4 in the state for violent crime, while homelessness, drug addiction, and abandoned properties continue to grow.

At some point, we have to be honest: continuing to do things the same way for decades while expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Reading is in an epidemic.

What is especially troubling is seeing properties that are condemned, abandoned, and listed on the City’s own Certified Blight List suddenly described as “owner-occupied.” A property with a condemned sticker cannot legally be occupied—by the owner or anyone else. Both things cannot be true at the same time. See this referenced in their email regarding 424 W Greenwich St and the attached condemned sticker on the property.

Reading has received millions of dollars in federal funding specifically to address blight. We are asking a simple and fair question: where have those funds gone? Because from where we stand, blight has not been fixed.

For transparency, we submitted our request to the Reading Redevelopment Authority in advance and received an initial response. When we followed up to clarify and ensure our comments would be formally noted for the public record, there has been no further response—complete radio silence. That silence is exactly why showing up in person and speaking on the record matters.

For those who want to see this firsthand, we will be attaching the condemned property sticker and the email correspondence with the RRA, including their response, directly to this post.

I am showing up tonight to speak for our veterans, our families, and our neighborhoods—on the record.

12/16/2025

📣 Special and Exciting Announcement!
We Agape You DBA Veteran Su***de Prevention 26 Per Day is thrilled to announce that on December 15, 2025, we signed a formal partnership agreement with the Lancaster Land Bank Authority to rehabilitate blighted and condemned properties for affordable housing serving veterans, non-veterans, and low-income families.

For the past 5+ years, we have worked tirelessly to build a meaningful partnership with the City of Reading to rehabilitate houses and address systemic community challenges — housing blight, crime, homelessness, unemployment, and substance use — but unfortunately have not achieved the cooperative responses needed to implement real solutions.
📍 Why this matters:
🏚️ Blighted Properties in Reading: The City of Reading has an inventory of more than 300 certified blighted, vacant, abandoned, or tax-delinquent properties that are in serious need of repair and reinvestment. City of Reading
📊 Crime & Safety Context: Reading’s crime rates are higher than average, with a violent crime rate that gives residents a 1 in 355 chance of becoming a victim of violent crime and property crime far above national safety benchmarks. NeighborhoodScout
💔 Veteran Su***de Reality: The most recent U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs data show that roughly 26 veterans die by su***de every day in the United States — a profound loss that underscores the urgency of community support and prevention efforts. Mental Health VA
📉 Overdose Crisis: In the U.S., an estimated ~77,600 people died from drug overdose in the 12-month period ending March 31, 2025, at about 213 deaths per day — illustrating the ongoing scale of the substance use crisis. Wikipedia

❗ Our Concern & Mission
Reading has faced long-standing challenges with property abandonment and quality of life issues. Many neighborhoods contain houses abandoned for over 20 years, often after the homeowner has passed away, leaving unsafe, deteriorating structures that depress community wellbeing.
Our organization’s flagship initiative — proven effective in multiple contexts — is designed to combat these exact problems by turning blighted housing into safe, affordable homes, creating jobs, stabilizing neighborhoods, and reducing risk factors associated with poverty, crime, and isolation.
However, despite years of outreach and proposals, the City’s engagement has fallen short of what’s needed to make this life-changing work a reality for the most vulnerable populations, including veterans.

✨ What’s Next
We remain committed to:
✔ Rehabilitating blighted, abandoned, and condemned properties for affordable housing
✔ Creating pathways to stability and community revitalization
✔ Supporting veterans and families impacted by trauma, poverty, and homelessness
We are grateful for our new partnership with Lancaster Land Bank Authority — and we will continue advocating for similar collaborations in Reading and beyond. Special thanks to the 18 different church ministries and all God’s people that support We Agape You.
Thank you for your support and belief in our mission. Together, we can transform communities and save lives. ❤️

12/04/2025

12/4/2025

Dear Governor Josh Shapiro, Mayor Eddie Moran and other Officials:

We are reaching out to respectfully request a formal recommendation letter supporting We Agape You, Inc.’s Flagship Program—our initiative to convert Reading’s blighted and condemned properties into safe housing, mental-health stabilization units, and workforce-development hubs for veterans, low-income families, youth, and individuals in crisis.
This recommendation will help us secure angel and impact investor funding (up to $1,000,000) to “Make Reading Beautiful Again” through this transformative community program.

About We Agape You
We Agape You, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a 14-year history of providing life-stabilizing services to vulnerable individuals. Our work includes veterans, low-income families, youth at risk, individuals struggling with mental-health challenges, and those experiencing homelessness. We maintain a 100% success rate in preventing su***de among the veterans we directly serve, and we are now expanding that proven model to meet the needs of the wider community.

Across Pennsylvania, the crisis is undeniable:

26 veteran su***des every day

8 youth su***des daily

Growing mental-health instability among adults and families

Severe blight, trafficking, addiction, and violent crime in Reading

There are 14.9 million vacant homes in America—yet HUD’s 2025 data shows merely 771,000 people experiencing homelessness. We have nearly twenty empty homes for every one person without a place to live!

Billions continue to flow into temporary shelters and fragmented programs with little long-term impact. The system is broken, and repeating the same model has produced the same tragic outcomes for decades.

Our Flagship Program breaks the cycle.
We transform abandoned, condemned, and blighted properties into safe, rehabilitated spaces that serve the community:

✔ Long-term housing units
✔ Mental-health counseling & crisis stabilization
✔ Employment & workforce training
✔ Youth intervention & family support
✔ Neighborhood safety and crime-reduction
✔ Veteran & civilian su***de-prevention
✔ Community revitalization

This is not temporary relief—this is community transformation.

We are especially grateful to Walmart Corporate for allowing us to fundraise outside their stores. Those funds allow us to provide essential second medical opinions and accurate diagnoses for individuals—veterans and civilians—who have been overmedicated or misdiagnosed, often leaving them unable to work, stabilize, or maintain housing. In my book, Breaking Chains: Veteran Su***de Prevention of 26 Per Day (https://a.co/d/aA9saIo), I detail how this same medical negligence happened to me personally, and to countless veterans we have served. Nationwide, more than 795,000 Americans are permanently disabled or die each year due to medical misdiagnosis—so is it any wonder that so many vulnerable individuals spiral into crisis when the system designed to help them instead harms them?

Our upcoming one-stop service center brings everything under one roof: medical guidance, mental-health services, employment assistance, and housing support. Currently, these services are scattered across disconnected agencies that leave people falling through the cracks. Our unified model ensures continuity, stability, and long-term success.

Why We Need Your Recommendation
We recently won an appeal with the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records, requiring the City of Reading to release its condemned-property list. Under 26 Pa. C.S.A. § 310, municipalities can donate condemned or abandoned properties to nonprofits to serve the public good. With your support, we can move more quickly to:

secure investor funding,

acquire property,

eliminate blight,

reduce crime,

and stabilize families and individuals in crisis.

Your recommendation letter will significantly strengthen our position as we work with angel and impact investors willing to invest up to $1,000,000 to launch and scale this statewide model.

Additional Resources for Context
City of Reading Certified Blighted Property List:
https://www.readingpa.gov/certified-blighted-properties

Recent Berks County Homelessness PIT Count:
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/annual-assessment-reveals-scope-of-homelessness-problem-in-berks-county/article_6eac3c77-d6fd-4658-8855-d174a74ae87f.html

Attached for your review are the supporting documents that demonstrate both our nonprofit status and the statewide recognition of our work. These include: our 501(c)(3) determination letter, the Appeal Decision from the Pennsylvania Office of Open Records confirming our right to obtain the City of Reading’s condemned-property lists, a letter from Governor Josh Shapiro’s Office advising our organization to pursue these efforts through local-level authorities, and a formal recognition letter from Governor Shapiro acknowledging the work of our new business, Athletes IQ Institute, which exists to prevent youth su***de by providing academic support, athletic development, and mental-health resources to young people across Pennsylvania. These documents collectively validate the legitimacy, urgency, and community necessity of our proposed Flagship Program.

Thank you for considering this request and for supporting our mission to make Reading a safer, healthier, and more beautiful place for every resident—veteran and civilian alike. The City of Reading was once a proud industrial powerhouse and the outlet capital of the country, drawing families, workers, and businesses from across the nation. Our community remembers that former glory. With your support, we can help Reading rise again—restored, revitalized, and rebuilt into the strong, thriving city it was always meant to be.

With gratitude,

Randy Simmons
President, We Agape You, Inc.
484-388-1328 | www.weagapeyouvsp.org

Attached:

– Letters from Governor Josh Shapiro
– Confirmation of 501(c)(3) status

– Appeals to the Office of Open Records

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Randolph Simmons, President
We Agape You, Inc
www.weagapeyou.org
484-240-9036

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