The video below of Philadelphia’s skid row is shocking and distressing. We have these horrible homeless crisis situations in all of our big cities, mostly due to bad – wrong-headed -policies, bad leaders, and wasteful expenditures. Watch these dozens of people camped out along ‘largest open-air drug market on the East Coast,’ as the New York Times calls it.
It was posted to YouTube by a user with the handle name ‘HoodTime,’ and was filmed last Wednesday at two spots underneath the ‘El’ – which is how locals refer to the Market-Frankford train line.
A spokesperson for the City of Philadelphia told DailyMail.com: “We did not produce that video and we cannot speak to its origin or veracity. As such, we are not able to comment on it.”
As the temperature plunged to a near-freezing 33 degrees, the group of unsheltered people filmed in the video is seen huddling around a fire that was started in a trash bin.
Instead of importing more poor, criminal, possibly disturbed people from foreign lands, we should be doing a better job with the homeless already here.
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