Philadelphia clears out homeless encampments in Kensington, but some say more needs to be done

Philadelphia's chief public safety director said the Parker administration's clearing of the homeless encampments along Kensington Avenue Wednesday morning was a "successful" resolution, but questions remain.

[@mahfuzab3355]

This action should have taken place years ago.

[@deanmershon6659]

The last 2 mayor's were lossers

[@mkhud50n]

the problem doesn't go away just because you don't see them

[@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee9531]

Sweeping the it under the rug.

[@michaelmage9627]

Like roaches ya mean?

[@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee9531]

Naaah mean

[@ltbriar1]

Now is See no evil, next hear no evil, finally say no evil. So, finally NO EVIL ha!

[@elisawilliams4918]

I'm from Philly, trust me they all will be back! to mess it up ALL AGAIN!

[@jqight740]

Or they are bringing in the illegals to combat the overflow from New Uork and midtown Manhattan.

[@chinesefood777]

Thank You! I'm NOT from Philly! Never been there but I know better! Right back to normal in a week!

[@harryl2924]

They're all on Vine St near Chinatown now...

[@JaniceBlackmon]

They just clean Kensington but they didn't clean Allegheny they went right around the corner and doing the same thing they did on Kensington streets you can't clear a section of the city when they have no place to go where are they going go to different parts of the neighborhood move into your neighborhood they need a place to go permanent😊

[@wandaclark5020]

Truth

[@calicojonesreloaded2886]

Got to start from somewhere it's election time 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Dannnnnnnttttttteeee]

I don't live there, however, there are enough videos to narrate the conditions. No city in the US will provide folks a permanent place to live who are using, that's why they offer treatment first. After long-term, inpatient treatment, plus sober living (its typically 1 yr) they are given many resources and will have both a job, and be able to pay for a place to live permanently. (also, based off age/income/disability) can include income based housing, roommate, etc.) but I guarantee that person will not be living on the sidewalk anymore.

[@jqight740]

They are going to clear room and bring in the migrants from Colombia 🇨🇴 or Venezuela 🇻🇪 or Guatemala 🇬🇹 or Honduras 🇭🇳 or Ghana 🇬🇭 or Nigeria 🇳🇬 or Senegal 🇸🇳 or Togo 🇹🇬 or Cuba 🇨🇺 or Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 Haiti 🇭🇹 and the Ukraine 🇺🇦 and China 🇨🇳 to take the overload from New York.

[@jumpman366]

Lmaooo

[@kathiejohns1418]

We all know this isn't going to last! Waste of effort & taxpayers money! But,I have to give it to our new mayor, she's trying

[@mghegotagun]

Still better than newsom who only cleans up when his masters at the CCP come to visit.

[@rickc.3536]

right this 1 am the following day. its all back lol. every single addict is chilling and there is not a single police officer standing there right now

[@latonya6451]

@@rickc.3536 LIES other youtubers are there after the clean up vloging and it's still clean.

[@rickc.3536]

@@latonya6451 its horribly dirty. you can literally watch the livestream. not to mention, i live 10 minutes from there and pass by daily including just one hour ago

[@marjoriejohnson5908]

@@rickc.3536 Just consider it a litter box cleanup!

[@lamar3697]

Man dude trying to make a difference he gonna be blessed!

[@jasper4661]

GET THE DEALERS AND PUT THEM ALL IN JAIL.

[@calicojonesreloaded2886]

Got to start from somewhere

[@MatteBlack2024]

Amen. That corridor has been internationally notorious for YEARS. I hope the city, county, state and feds are able to provide meaningful rehab to those who want it.

[@edstueckle4856]

Hahahaha. They'll just go back.

[@bmorechiraq]

Tomorrow

[@jqight740]

And they will bring in the migrants. Errr illegals from Colombia 🇨🇴 Venezuela 🇻🇪 Guatemala 🇬🇹 etc. open spots for open borders for these elected officials. Bleep them for doing this and creating homelessness and open borders.

[@TanyaQueen182]

At least they're offering help, and not just kicking people out.

[@lauriedeering4725]

Great attitude lets hope more people find love in themselves to love others.

[@phillydee1004]

Im really confused,why wasn't this done year's ago and if this was a drug free zone and dealers and buyers weren't arrested what about the drugs in other parts of Philadelphia.The only reason this is happening is that area is going to be gentrified 💰💰

[@LofiLuv]

Election year

[@theresaangle9611]

They clean it up before and they came back! They'll be back.

[@SallyYarchak]

Angry rob 🙏

[@stephenforbesjr8187]

@@theresaangle9611 by tomorrow if not tonight! lol!

[@phillydee1004]

@@stephenforbesjr8187 facts

[@bmorechiraq]

They will be back tomorrow ! 💉 This happens every year

[@jqight740]

Or they are clearing out space for the Asylum seekers err illegal immigrants from Venezuela 🇻🇪 or Honduras 🇭🇳 or 🇳🇮 or Colombia 🇨🇴 or Ecuador 🇪🇨 or maybe Ghana 🇬🇭 or Nigeria 🇳🇬 or Senegal 🇸🇳 and some Ukraine 🇺🇦 or even China 🇨🇳. That is also what they are doing. .

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

NOT THIS YEAR!

[@jqight740]

@@BrianCarnevaleB26 they are bringing in the migrants. And not chaos and displacement continues.

[@brendanstoran7555]

The drugs problem needs to be addressed, before anything can change, it’s a scourge on the USA, it saddens me to see the change over the years, across the pond in Britain things aren’t as bad these days hopefully you’ll get to grips with it and the people get help/treatment 🙏🏻

[@dwii8728]

shouldn't these people be fined $1,000 for public intoxication, then eventually arrested for failure to pay? credit to the mayor, but I think Philadelphia needs to enforce the Law.

[@gazaboy3049]

@@dwii8728 no cap

[@shAnn0n1]

N they'll be back!!! The homeless move to other blocks, and will, eventually, move back to EXACTLY this intersection. You'll see.

[@wandaclark5020]

Singing we shall overcome.

[@an0therdimensi0n99]

i hope this wasnt to get outsiders to come there and shop, or eat, or jog....that stigma the junkies left will linger for a long long time

[@wandaclark5020]

So now where are they going to Electric Ave and then they can take it higher

[@80ladyjay78]

Robert Keepsey you are doing God’s work, prayers for protection, wisdom, and peace while helping the sick. 🙏🏽

[@hopemanley4358]

Homeless I was, now in 'Housing First' in another stare I live. Much trauma in my life and staying clean (drug free) AND living indoors is hard work. Recovery is possible.

[@christinaserrano5673]

They do this almost every year and the addicts come right back 24 hours later.

[@johngiel9471]

Where they going ? Torresdale Ave 🫣

[@ro.3645]

Prob Frankford terminal smh

[@brianmchugh7679]

All they did was move them a coupe of hundred yards. They are all still there. Just a block or two away. The Mayor seems to have gone very quiet since her media day in the sun. Nothing has changed. Anyone who thinks it has, need to take a wander through the streets themselves (and not just on Kensington Avenue). There are 24/7 live cam videos. Watch them for yourselves.

[@Triplethreat-cv9iw]

Bring that mayor to nyc immediately

[@sharongeorge4585]

Authorities can puff out their chest and give themselves credit. Victims get shuffled back and forth. Vicious circle. 🤢🚓🙏🏻🧐

[@elterrifico9522]

Boooo. It was Philly’s best tourist attraction

[@wandaclark5020]

Yes it was

[@jaytaylor2090]

Wasn't that spot in a couple of movies? Those blue poles look familiar..😮

[@max_payne21]

@@elterrifico9522 😭😥

[@Triplethreat-cv9iw]

They need to do that in NYC like right now

[@virginiajessee3708]

36 out os how many? Where did the rest of them go?

[@joseph-is-my-name]

They just wander into another part of Philly probably, agree lol

[@JRJUNIOR215]

CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE

[@UK1uno]

Beautiful effort ... let's double down and keep it that way. ❤

[@Pagandream55]

Where are they moving them to? Surely it will just put the problem onto someone else?

[@Charles-d4e3b]

Where’d they go Must be big election coming

[@tesfabaruch425]

I never been there but does that street look a little like Bushwick Avenue in Brooklyn

[@rustamvas]

One question. Where did they move?

[@bigbadbubba099]

Some real estate companies want to gentrify Kensinngton by buying property cheap and deveopin into high rents and more homeless than before.😢 Just somewhere else.

[@wandaclark5020]

Yeppers

[@chandrareid6966]

Drugs should never been put in those communities in the first place by those in high places.🤔

[@anyariv]

it's about freaking time! But where are these people going?

[@thomasjordan5578]

Bravo pay no mind to naysayers, it had to start some kind of way.

[@sheilawalsh8397]

Saving Kensington What what about the human lives That need to be saved Kensington will always be there, but the human being that needs so much help in this crisis won't 😢

[@vincentjack735]

All these negative minds. Let the city and the people work and stop putting down the effort

[@bossK78]

Scratches the surface? At least it's something.

[@cobycuzzocrea9142]

Being Homeless Doesn't Mean u Have to Be Dirty & Nasty & Just Leave Trash all Over the Place..Just Throw it n Trash Bags n Get it too stay Clean

[@nara808]

Couldn’t they just convert an old Walmart into a treatment center and prescribe them pharmaceuticals. Kind of like an asylum/type deal.

[@sherrylynn8193]

Whether we all feel it’s gonna last or not,…let’s think of it as at least a positive step towards a change and pray or keep your fingers crossed that it will last. And pray that those people get the help they need.

[@MJ-px2df]

What happened to the people that were on in that area whom refused health services?

[@ricardosoto5512]

It's a Publicity Stunt. Pure Show.

[@pSL-oy5gl]

A good first step.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

Do what we do in Florida..Put on Greyhound buses to anywhere.

[@laurasimko4426]

So where did all the people go? Relocated where? I don't understand how this works.

[@max_payne21]

🤔

[@Scorpion-Doctor]

We all know he is chasing the wind. He cannot fix the situation. He does not have what it takes. Just wait a few days weeks …

[@TheHonarable1]

Need to sweep the whole city.......I mean country!

[@Enkaybe]

They better help them out and give them somewhere to stay which is drug-free! It’s really sad tho😢

[@roberthenderson4466]

WHY ARE THESE TWO REPORTERS STANDING SO FAR APART...........DO THEY HATE EACH OTHER........

[@harryl2924]

Edit* Philadelphia moves homeless encampment from Kensington to Center City...

[@yasmin8851]

Its a start, help those you can, but that situation couldn't continue.

[@skello4105]

I hope the give them funding just like the they giving the illegal immigrants funding and 5 star hotels

[@KrazyC2008]

My biggest question is. Where are people going to go after that? I have seen cops in Phoenix Arizona forced people off of property who are sleeping on the streets near the Walmart that I used to work at when I was living in Phoenix Arizona. So apparently this is everywhere. Yet it seems as though nothing is being done about the populace of homeless people.

[@shaheenmalik6853]

They cracked down on the homeless but not the drug monopoly ran there that keeps them stuck on the streets cuz that makes sense. Where did they put the homeless? Into homes or a different street? So they just moved the problem?

[@wandaclark5020]

No trashcans not 1 payments are in their worst conditions addicts are in alleyways and sidestreets and abandant buildings bodies will be hard to find now.Some wont be saved either as fast as on Kensington ave.

[@paddy9449]

Good luck!!!!! YOUR gonna need it!!!!!

[@tahireugene8385]

Its a start. And thats is important.

[@franklau1000]

Are they going to give the american homeless free room and board like they do to the illegal immigrants?????

[@oluhamilton2121]

Soooo...where'd they go?

[@Zerocool215]

They just move to somewhere else. Summerset was nut. Then k&a. Now. It will b another area. Forever hell on earth

[@stormb28]

Where will they go?

[@chocolatewheelchair]

down the block around the corner

[@thetrainwreck1469]

Great. You just threw away everything they had. Hope you sleep well at night.

[@jqight740]

Becoming a third world country. Scary very scary like shanty towns Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦 or Favela Complex De Almaldo Rio De Janeiro Brazil 🇧🇷 or the poor sections of Medellin Antioquia Colombia 🇨🇴. Man that is scary

[@sheilacarns4227]

What happens to the people??

[@DaleColeman-yy6rg]

It'll be around different streets in Kensington considering its an area. However because its a rough areas no matter what street they go onto they won't be at any harm

[@jqight740]

This is like Skid Row downtown LA Los Angeles California

[@newblackworldorder9030]

GREAT START

[@Justin-j6u]

Only scratched the surface.

[@toomasargel8503]

If You think yes 72 hours have empty and clean but think where all these homless and drug depended poepole put ..hospital find 10.000 or 40.000 pepoele free aparment ? ..and job ??

[@johnl.8616]

That's it? Only 2 blocks...

[@V247Videos]

Finally 🎉

[@Justin-j6u]

Where is Amber going to go then?

[@MrLyricalBones]

Whos coming to town this time ?

[@max_payne21]

🤔

[@carloselizondo7671]

Too late.

[@Janiebelle01]

Pitiful

[@davidsgarage44]

Theres a 5 million a week drug market there

[@Zerocool215]

My hometown. Boy. The horror. Evil demonic demons. All over. Blessed be. Peace. Johnny wajda northeast Philly

[@warreporttv8316]

i've seen kensington. much longer than a 2 block stretch. try 2 miles long

[@415_Stand-up]

Wow so you moved them one block down the road

[@sylvestersmith5072]

They only doing that cause of the KZbinrs filming the place all the time.....

[@rickadams9]

Seems as thought this is an annual event.

[@marvinhagler4721]

Time will tell

[@ananassucre5657]

Sorry i dont understand where all thèse drug people will go and live now

[@Rjisawake]

Finally!

[@Stephonix1st]

Breaking up the wrong encampment

[@rafazs01]

Then a week later....

[@MKOMKONNNN]

you let the hand cranking rub out too longand now its asap hosptital as=cess

[@GeorgeFitness-yo8bl]

These are the most incompetent and inept politicians I have ever seen

[@MoneyLineNayDenni]

Amen now save my friend !

[@mudsharksunite]

What is the head of china coming to philly?

[@sgtpepperz25]

Dysfunction is the norm in Philly.

[@carolhandy3664]

Where did the addicts go??

[@Treyboy82]

FINALLY

[@williamwaters4506]

Where did the homeless go?

[@JohnShinn1960]

Except for the tents they're creepin back already. Literally.

[@seedeed46]

nice move

[@Dean19_]

This is like that episode off the wire🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Nyameanah]

Great look mayor. Hope they don't return.