Row homes line Potter and Custer Streets in Kensington on the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019. (Photos by Maggie Loesch) While Kensington and the City of Philadelphia as a whole face…
Should Kensington adopt these ideas to address homelessness?
Should the city pay returning citizens to rehab abandoned buildings in Kensington?
Some say it could create economic opportunities outside of the black market while creating housing for people in need
This year, the City of Philadelphia ended with a surplus of over $769 million. Jondhi Harrell, the director of The Center for Returning Citizens, believes that at least $100 million of the…
This organization has an 85% housing retention rate
Could housing-first and harm reduction models be the answer for people experiencing chronic homelessness in Kensington?
For more than a year, Jolene, who requested to withhold her last name for this story, was living on Emerald Street in the encampment at the intersection of Emerald and Lehigh Avenue.…