Emerald Street, Tulip Street, Kensington Avenue, Frankford Avenue - the city shut them down one by one, vowing improvement at every step of the way. Over the next two years, the city closed down four highly visible “tent cities” that grew along a series of underpasses. In 2017, officials moved to raze a large-scale encampment known as El Campamento that had long existed, hidden out of sight along the Conrail train tracks. Since Mayor Jim Kenney took office in 2015, encampment closures in the name of public health and safety have been a near constant in Kensington. “Or they’re just going to go to the back streets.” “There’s gotta be somewhere you could put your tent, a park, an area, some sort of designated spot,” Meyer said.
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