Hacked together by imc-tech . Webhosting donated by Datarealm. The Liberty Bell is ensconced in a sleek glass museum and its surrounding historical neighborhoods are quaint and well-restored. The grass is green, the trees pruned, the streets scrubbed clean. Interesting public artworks dot the landscape.
Patriotic bunting ruffles the edges of buildings.
But the Kensington Welfare Rights Union won't let you be deceived. There are 250,000 families living below the poverty line in Philadelphia, and 40,000 abandoned houses that the city has boarded up. Tent cities are a tactic that this radical anti-poverty group has used for years as a practical and immediate solution to homelessness, as well as a media stunt to draw attention to the problem. They began setting up Bushville in one North Philadelphia location last Thursday, when the police came by with a man who claimed to own the property and ordered them to leave. KWRU maneuvered deftly around the police pressure, and moved Bushville to a clearly city-owned lot.