Philadelphia sweeps aside 2 heroin camps in Kensington

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moncler bambino outlet The rest of the people who had been in the camps had either left already for shelters or a family member home. One man on Tulip told outreach workers that his mother and sister piumini moncler outlet had visited him in the camps the night before and were coming to pick him up. moncler bambino outlet

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moncler saldi outlet mind is spinning, said Tiffany Prinski, 38, who lived on the streets of Kensington for three years and in the Kensington Avenue camp moncler donna for the last several months. She spent Tuesday night in her tent, wide awake and anxious, running through her options. moncler saldi outlet

piumini moncler outlet The city is clearing out two heroin encampments in Kensington today. Some of the last stragglers are moncler outlet off to city shelters; others say they https://www.moncleroutlet-i.org not sure where they sleep tonight. mind is spinning, one woman who lived in the encampments for months told me. In addition to their concerns about aggravating the overdose rate, protesters said the city didn have enough nearby housing to accommodate all the neighborhood moncler uomo homeless, a fact city officials readily admitted. The Office of Homeless Services had set aside low moncler bambino saldi barrier shelter beds for 110 people on a list of camp residents it had compiled earlier anyone moncler saldi outlet else seeking shelter would have to look for it in other facilities. piumini moncler outlet

very painful for us to say we don have beds for everybody, but it part of the reality of the homeless system, said Liz Hersh, the city director of homeless services. Her office has requested money for additional permanent housing in next year budget.

moncler outlet online shop Kensington residents staged counter protests on Tuesday night, saying that the moncler outlet serravalle camps were a health hazard for the neighborhood and that their children have had to pick their piumini moncler saldi way moncler saldi past discarded needles and open drug use on their way to school. moncler outlet online moncler outlet online uomo shop

moncler bambino saldi need our neighborhood to stop being like this, said Shannon Farrell, president of the Harrowgate Civic Association. are all for them getting help, but we not in favor of them living here until they think they gotten what they wanted. and slowly walked through the train tunnel, checking inside tents for stragglers. Then sanitation workers scooped whatever had been left tents, mattresses, pallets, tables into a waiting trash truck. moncler bambino saldi

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moncler outlet online uomo A couple who asked to be identified only by their first names, Mark and Sarah, walked up the block with their cat, Little Bubs, in a carrier. All three were moving into one of the city shelters on Kensington Avenue. They been living on Tulip since February, after shuttling between another encampment and two abandoned houses since last July. moncler outlet online uomo

moncler saldi get what they doing, because it is kind of insane allowing a homeless encampment under a public bridge. They probably doing the best they can with what they have, Mark said. they trying to force us into treatment because of this I feel like it going to go really wrong. It going to displace everyone to somewhere else, and they going to have the same problem again in a new location. moncler saldi

moncler uomo A father and son, who had been living together in a tent on Tulip for the last two months, lugged a plastic bin of belongings, headed to pitch camp elsewhere. Brian Holzworth of Somerton walked past with a shopping cart piled high with scrap. He gleaned every bit of metal he could from the abandoned camp to sell piumini moncler at the scrapyard down the block. moncler uomo

figured I capitalize, he said. He been living rough for a year, including on Tulip for six months, and didn know where he would sleep Wednesday night, he said. Another sidewalk, perhaps.

moncler outlet serravalle On Kensington Avenue, news cameras and neighbors clustered to watch the sanitation crews work. A few advocates helped Prinski, now wiping away tears, dismantle her tent. Outreach workers in orange shirts encouraged her to walk down the block to a nurse who could treat an abscess on her forearm. moncler outlet serravalle

piumini moncler always uncomfortable, said Kate Perch, the housing coordinator for Prevention Point, watching the cleanup on Tulip Street. Prevention Point is running two of the city shelters that have opened to accommodate camp residents. knew it was coming, and felt like all of us in the initiative did the best we could to engage people. And that not stopping just because [the camps are being cleared] piumini moncler.