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Philly installing public restrooms and sinks at City Hall and Love Park, plus hundreds more free meals
Marked by colorful decals, the sites are intended to help prevent COVID-19 from spreading among people on the street.
Rumors fly in Kensington about coronavirus ‘immunity’ and early jail releases
That's the word from the Sunday Love Project, which is feeding people in the neighborhood daily.
Stockpiling for the lockdown? Philly-area preppers were already ready
“Everybody takes advice from us when things like this happen.”
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As Philly clears homeless encampments, Convention Center and businesses work to fund permanent housing
Without a place to go, displaced people say they're "just going to move somewhere else."
New Philly mandate: Fight opioid crisis with medication-assisted treatment
By next January, all 80 city-contracted recovery programs must offer it.
People living in Kensington’s encampments are wary of the city’s plan to clear out their home
“Where’s everybody going to go?”
He used to shoot heroin out back. Now his music draws crowds to the stage.
Singer-songwriter Joe Nester made a triumphant return to Philly.
At the First Stop recovery house in Kensington, it’s cold turkey or nothing
For some people, the tough love approach works. Others aren't so lucky.
Kensington forum on opioids packs the house, but avoids fiery debate
Response to the proposed CUES was less incendiary than at other recent meetings.
Who counts Philly’s homeless? Sometimes, people who’ve experienced it themselves
"Peer-driven harm-reduction outreach is where it’s at."