As the city’s housing crisis grows, ACT UP Philly ‘Airs Mayor Kenney’s Dirty Laundry’
On Aug. 11, Philadelphia Managing Director Tumar Alexander told a crowded auditorium at Lewis Elkins Elementary School the city prefers a service approach to encampment resolutions — government parlance for encampment sweeps. The police don’t beat up or kick people out.
But according to ACT UP Philadelphia’s Jamaal Henderson, police swarmed Kensington last Wednesday during a planned sweep of two encampments. With large areas cordoned off from public view, they only later learned that many of the people experiencing homelessness had their belongings thrown in the trash that morning.