The Nation - News from Feb. 25, 1986

The developer hired to rebuild 61 homes destroyed last May 13 in the police raid on MOVE was declared in default and fired from the $6.7-million project, Philadelphia Housing Director Julia Robinson said. She said that Ernest Edwards was dismissed because he failed to give adequate assurance that he was financially able to complete the job. The houses were destroyed by a fire that started when police dropped a bomb on the roof of the group’s row house headquarters in the West Philadelphia neighborhood. Eleven members of the radical, back-to-nature cult died in the blaze.