Philadelphia isn’t prepared to help people struggling with addiction and homelessness, but that isn’t slowing down Mayor Parker’s plans to end Kensington’s open-air drug market

Mayor Cherelle Parker campaigned on shutting down the Kensington neighborhood’s open-air drug market, saying she would bring in the National Guard. Although that has not yet come to pass, her administration has brought an intense police presence to the neighborhood during and after the encampment clearings. Read more.

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