News For Philly’s nonbinary and transgender school staff, name changes are impossible without legal documentation. byClaire Wolters09/25/2020
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Community Listening “My street has been an open-air heroin market for some years now and it is a living hell to live in that kind of situation.” byAlfred Klosterman08/03/2020
Community Listening “The streets shouldn’t be their home. We have to be able to find a place where they have a home right now.” byLuis Acosta08/03/2020
Community Listening “Reclaim intersections with open-air drug markets. Intersections with open-air drug markets are where all these drugs are coming from and that’s a huge problem.” byZaire Best08/03/2020
Community Listening “My kids are grown, but I get up every morning and I clean that block because I don’t want to see my babies walk through that.” bySonja Bingham08/03/2020
Community Listening “We really need to consider the impact that the conditions in Kensington are having on our next generation.” byBrooke Feldman08/03/2020
Community Listening “I feel the pain and the hopelessness when I have to walk through my neighborhood, and we shouldn’t have to feel that.” byShelly Donohue08/03/2020
Community Listening “If you look at Center City, trash is picked up there consistently… Why can’t we have a clean neighborhood as well?” byJasmin Velez08/03/2020
Community Listening “When I say, ‘Whose streets? Our streets,’ I mean that these are our streets, and we need help from the city.” byDarlene Abner-Burton08/03/2020
Community Listening “It’s not just trash that we’re dealing with. You’re talking about biohazardous waste, like syringes and human waste.” byStephanie Martinez08/03/2020
Community Listening “Peaceful protests are an expression of First Amendment rights, and I support the freedom of speech and the right to assemble.” byMark Squilla07/07/2020
For Philly’s nonbinary and transgender school staff, name changes are impossible without legal documentation.
“We really need to consider the impact that the conditions in Kensington are having on our next generation.”
