P hiladelphia police and city workers dismantled a homeless encampment in Kensington early Wednesday morning and ordered people living on the street to leave the area, the most visible action that ...

People cited for substance use in the Philly neighborhood will be offered the opportunity to enter a diversionary program ...

"We’re not pointing the fingers at anyone," said Deputy Police Commissioner Pedro Rosario. "It’s a complicated issue that requires a complicated solution." ...

The mayor signed an executive order that gives the police department the option to make a summary arrest instead of a misdemeanor arrest for certain drug offenses.

A City Council bill would place limits on these services, citing resident complaints about litter and nuisance behaviors from ...

Homeless encampment clearings ... Parker has also focused in particular on the Kensington neighborhood and its notorious open-air drug markets. This is important, not least because Kensington ...

The municipal leadership of Philadelphia reported in February 2020 that 48% of the homeless in the Kensington neighborhood encampment closures were still housed or in residential treatment programs.

Smoke from a nearby homeless encampment wafts through their rowhouse walls. When Mayor Cherelle L. Parker took office in January and vowed to clean up Kensington for good, Encarnacion thought real ...