Correction: Philly crews displace Kensington trash to other parts of Philly.

After being embarrassed with videos that went global. Election year surface shine.

We do this in Vancouver Canada and tents just go back up a few days later. It's all just a publicity stunt.

But the billion a year drug dealing is free to go on.

City been doing it for years they will move to the next block where they won’t be bothered

Getting locked up saved my life ! It’s hellish but was the only thing that worked for me. 10 years this August

You could start by closing our southern border

Well those people will move somewhere else. Simple as that.

Good effort moving people around. They will be right back as soon as the clean up crew leaves.

It's that time to play Philly's favorite game of Let's Pretend. -Let's Pretend that shuffling addicts around the city solves anything! -Let's Pretend that this isn't all just theater for Mayor Parker's approval rating! -Let's Pretend that going after the drug dealers and distributors, instead of the drug addicts, is not what the police should really be focusing on. -Let's Pretend that the addicts will magically disappear instead of just going back to Kenzo the second the police leave the area.

Sure... See ya tomorrow.

With all the vacant buildings they have down there they should make them rehabs and halfway houses. They need a place to go first.

Praying that some get help

Nothing more than a photo op nothing NOTHING WILL CHANGE 💯

They probably needed hazmat gear for that area,but this is refreshing to see none the less. They should make it a monthly thing

Three hots and a cot in treatment centers or jail.

imagine moving the drug addicts and not stopping the drug

Wow. Long overdue, but better late than never!

But how are the pigeons going to find their fentanyl?

We give it a week

They did this some 8 yrs back.. Once again where the hell are you gonna put them?

Better clean with nothing but bleach and oxiclean lol

gee...how many years did take...how many lives did it destroy...way to go philly!!!!

The long-term plan that's funny this has been going on since 99,yes I'm from Kensington

How many times are they going to do this? They don't enforce anything.

Mayor, you kept your Promise. Now you must Maintain it….

Always a toothless person to interview….😂

you know realestate investors are going to buy cheap and wait until it's cleaned up and sell high.

Kensington will be the future I said it first this reminds me of several previous gentrified neighborhoods they are filled with drugs homeless but then high rise luxury buildings with a close proximity to city limits.

powerwash the sidewalk everyday

I know this area. And the reason they finally doing this it’s business. A lot of investors around Kensigton. I saw a lot of old business closed and bringing new ones. They also are demolished the old houses. City care more about their taxes coming from this new business. Kensigton soon be history. I saw expensive apartments around. And they are keep going.

Are we supposed to clap or something ? they willingly caused the problem ...

For how long? you just push them to other areas

There are tons of videos here on KZfaq where most of these “homeless” people, really have homes, they just choose droogs instead and burned all their bridges at “home” lol

Think is what the Whitehouse needs

Biohazard.

They are cleaning it just for it to get dirty again in a few minutes 😂

Its two blocks of Kensington ave...

A positive step in the right direction.

Regardless of the clean up some people will never be happy and complain about something lol

1:41 Janette sold her front tooth for a loosie

So after the 72 hours has passed they will gradually just head back to the area again. So the problem isn't actually going to be resolved. This is a temporary fix not a long term one.

The city made the problem

That cop @ 3:15 walks and looks like a cop from the 1980s, hill street blues. 🤣🤣🤣

Where did the water spray the homeless to? Just another street to call home. There is no fix. There was no plan. Just shifting them. Unless The City does something to help , just leave them alone.

What’s it going to look like next month???

It’ll all be back next week

What took so long and the only way to prevent this from happening again is cutting off the drug supply with extreme harsh penalties.

Thank you Mayor ❤

WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD BE AGAINST THE CLEAN-UP? 😡 WHOM EVER IS AGAINST IT, IS PART OF THE DANG PROBLEM‼IT BROKE 💔MY HEART WHEN SHE SAID THE KIDS HAVE TO WALK PAST ALL OF THE DRUGS & NEEDLES TO GET TO SCHOOL AND TO COME HOME😔

The young people ( under 40 or so ) watching this Kensington "cleanup" probably never watched the Sylvester Stallone "Rocky" movies, but they're a good visual reference. I'll explain... Rocky was filmed in 1975. The last true film of the story, Rocky Balboa, thirty years later. Both ( as were the films in between) featured Stallone's former home: the Kensington District. In the 1975 film, you see Philly for what it was: "Filth-adelphia." The 70s was a bad time for Philly. Out of control crime ( from lower level street crime to organized crime). Graffiti ( tagging ) covered EVERYTHING ( even trash cans and newspaper boxes). Worst were the endless trash collector union strikes that left corners, sidewalks, alleys, etc covered with piles of garbage that could hit 5 or 6 feet high mounds, and weren't much better when the City Sanitation WAS working. The filth you see in Rocky was real. Kensington was the worst. Rocky 2 was filmed, i don't remember, 1981??? Kensington looked worse. Changes in city leadership had no effect, despite trying. By Rocky 5 Kensington looked worse than downtown Baghdad in 1991. Seriously, Kensington looked like a demilitarized zone, and you didn't DARE go down Kensington Ave after dark unless you had a death wish! Notice in Rocky Balboa, 2005, Kensington is even more destroyed than in the 90s. You'll see the very same shops, and row houses " Rocky" lived at, had become burned out shells and crumbling rubble. It's hard to believe rats could live there, let alone people. My point? In the 49 years since the filming of the original Rocky, Philly Mayors and Councilors have tried to "cleanup" Kensington, and improve its quality of life. IT CANT BE DONE! All of this is just the usual election year publicly stunt. A better use of the taxpayers money? GIVE UP, put a wall around the whole district, offer the home and business owners aid in relocation. Then for "humanitarian sake," convert a building to a rehab. Then let NO ONE in or out from dusk till dawn, and let follow its course until there's nothing left, bulldoze it, and start over.

They all bout to be on the L

Is Biden arriving for a photo op?

clean it up then interview an abuser?!? LMFAO

Ain't gonna last

Way over due! Crazy to have an open air drug haven.

And where are they all going to live now??....the next neighborhood? They gotta go somewhere 😂

L.A/Cali is way worse than Philly when it comes to drugs and homelessness! Kensington been like that for decades, so why the sudden change?

Good luck! Pissin in the wind!

Just PR for the cops. When the cameras are off they'll go back to sitting in their cars and watching crimes and doing nothing.

Okay,now where are they gonna house those people?

Thank goodness

All is fine to clean up, but where did all the people go, to other neighborhoods!!!

It’s about time to clean this mess up and get these people off the streets

Thank God

If you build it they will come. This is a prime location to invest in real estate with appreciation expected in the 40% range over 5 years. A $40.000 property renovated will be valued at $323.000 in 5 years. Transit oriented development is a primary requirement for milennials.

It's about time!

They will be back tomorrow?

Thank you ALL for the help..Very Much Appreciated..God Bless you 💕🙏

If the city doesn't consistently remove people from the streets, it'll never stay that way. They have to make a permanent plan to place the homeless in rehabs.

Great, now what neighborhood will they go next? Upper class?😅

Just saw a live and they’re definitely back already

I live in a very rural part of the country and hardly ever been in cities. I remember the first time I saw a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk. My first reaction was of worry and scared that the person was deceased. We need radical solutions to this.

They dnt call it the BadLands for Nuthin. Why would anyone pay taxes here, or live here with there kids. How can anyone claim to be a law abiding citizen choosing to live in such a neighborhood. There's bigger and better places to take a family than living in the slums!!

Until the dealers start killing for new blocks this mayor is starting some shit .

anybody know what that place is, first a lot people going in those doors, then a bunch start coming out ?

Where did the go?

Waste of time and money. I give it four months before Kensington is back to "Filthadelphia."

Check the live feed in the next couple days. Theyll be right back there

Look up Kensington Philadelphia PA camera 3 its may 10 there back at the train station.

Now where am I gonna get my tranq?

Nbc news needs to send a camera crew to Atlantic City boardwalk.Plenty of people from Kingston now walk the streets of Ac ..Sad

Strange that there is now a sale on Soylent Green

If they had stopped this on day 1 , they would have never had this problem.

Two whole blocks! It took Philly over 3 years to clear two WHOLE blocks. Yeah, Philly City Hall really cares about its residents. The residents that don't live on the streets, don't sling drugs, don't O.D. on drugs! The residents that go to work every day, go to school every day, and try to survive in today's economy! Keep electing those fools, maybe they'll clear two more WHOLE blocks next year! 😂😂

Bout timee

Where do they find these low level people to try and interview...embarrassing

Seeing kids side step the Misery...is heartbreaking

It will be all back to degradation in a week.

Great start

Instead of these non profits and community orgs criticizing the efforts why not support the at least little good that is happening? Did they forget that these people and camps are negatively affecting the law abiding citizens that pay taxes in the area? Don’t just point out the negative without acknowledging the positive

They only moved a few blocks away it was shown in another video on YT

Wear thick hazard gloves-even if they can be /are uncomfortable-the will keep your hands protected better than those thin latex gloves.

Yes we need are street back it about time Thank you Parker 👍👏👏👏

Good make this a weekly thing

Wow.

What took so long?

Time to get sober 😮 needs to be done each morning

How wide's⁰p the Strech about ....

Anyone taking wagers on how long it will take them to return?