AUDIO – IS ACCEPTANCE THE KEY? –

May 7, 2024 – A number of major cities are changing the way they address addiction and homelessness. In Philadelphia, the city’s new mayor, Cherelle Parker, is employing an aggressive strategy in Kensington, a neighborhood that is home to one of the largest open-air drug markets in the country. Along Kensington Avenue, people are camped out together in large clusters on the sidewalk or dodging cars as they dart across the street to encampments on the other side. You can see people using drugs out in the open. Needles and pieces of trash litter the ground. Subway cars roar by on elevated train tracks above the street.

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