De wereld is om zeep

[Ja-Rune]

wtf is dat

[radje]

het "beste land in de wereld" in actie

[Ja-Rune]

Jamar serieus
Ja ok dat was serieus
Maar wat is dat

[frenzal]

bestof post uit deze reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comm..._philadelphia/

For people who are actually interested in how this developed rather than flogging a particular political horse

Kensington is a neighborhood in North Philadelphia. It's located not too far from the major highway I-95, and is also well-served by public transit via the Market-Frankford Line (commonly called the El, the elevated train above this street)

It was originally a neighborhood inhabited by Eastern European immigrants, who worked in garment factories, making things like stockings and hats - the textile industry was a key part of Philadelphia's industrial economy

The textile industry was one of the earliest hit with deindustrialization - factories moved to the cheaper and non-unionized American South, and then overseas, and Kensington was hit very hard by this de-industrialization. White Flight wasn't as bad here as in many other cities - Port Richmond, a neighborhood right next to this, is still largely white working class - but much of the white population fled and were replaced by Black migrants from the Jim Crow south, as well as hispanic immigrants

By the 60s the area had a large number of abandoned buildings, and the drug problem began then. First heroin in the 60s, then meth in the 70s, then crack and cocaine in the 80s and 90s. The neighborhood became a bit of a drug "emporium" because of its location - it's right near major highways and train routes, so it was a common place for people from outside of Philadelphia itself to go buy drugs. And all of the abandoned buildings created ideal places for people to squat in and do drugs

But though the area was awash in drugs and drug addicts, the abandoned buildings paradoxically helped keep the problems less visible. Large drug/homeless camps were established in abandoned lots and other marginal space - drug addicts and the homeless congregated there

The current situation in Kensington is caused by two things - fentanyl and cleanup efforts

I probably don't need to elaborate too much here, but the opioid epidemic and the influx of cheap fentanyl from China has turned the existing drug issue into an epidemic. Kensington is the place where you can get the purest heroin on the east coast, for the cheapest price. It's a place that draws in drug addicts, keeps them ensnared, and kills them via overdoses. And it's the most potent of its kind in the country

Paradoxically, cleanup efforts pushed the problem from being somewhat invisible to being out in the open. In general, both the City of Philadelphia, and real estate money, have made an effort to buy up and restore/rebuild many buildings in the area. Kensington has excellent transit access to Center City, and is very close to the hottest real estate market in the city, the neighborhoods of Fishtown and Northern Liberties. Many of the buildings and abandoned lots that served as drug squats and homeless camps were bought up and torn down or restored, with the hopes that in a few years, Kensington will be the next hot real estate market in the city

The proximate problem that led to the current crisis was the clearing of a number of homeless camps, particularly the biggest one in the city, El Campamento which was established in the CSX railroad cut to the West of Kensington. After mounting complaints from neighbors and community leaders, CSX and the city finally cleared out the homeless camp. They were able to get some people housed and/or in treatment, but many addicts refused treatment/housing, and the drug problem will always create more homeless addicts. But now these homeless addicts didn't have an established camp to go to, so instead they just started living close to the drugs - right under the El on Kensington Ave, which is what you're seeing in this video. Basically, cleanup efforts pushed the homeless addicts out of camps where they were mostly out of sight, and into streets where they were very visible

The problem is really bad, as you can see, but there's no obvious thing for the city to do. A charity tried to set up a safe injection site nearby, but both the Trump administration and locals blocked it from being established. The city's homeless infrastructure isn't really equipped to handle the numbers of people here - and even if it had the money, most of the homeless are addicts and will refuse to live in homeless housing that requires sobriety. Kensington is going to remain a convenient place to buy drugs no matter what thanks to its great transit links. And the opioid epidemic will continue to produce new addicts that will be ensnared by places like Kensington

Some articles:

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news...-20180123.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/m...ladelphia.html

https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/c...arito-morales/

moest deze video een uur duren, ik zou niet kunnen stoppen met kijken denk ik

[]as]e]

https://www.youtube.com/c/SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos

90% van die mensen leeft op Skid Row in LA, ook de moeite om u eens in te verdiepen

[Ja-Rune]

De wereld is om zeep.

[acku]

Originally Posted by ]as]e

http://youtu.be/cOBoDT-3oM0

dacht net hetzelfde als de eerste comment
net een apocalyptisch spel met vreemde animaties

[Kolb]

Niemand The Wire gezien?

Hell, zelfs in Brussel spuiten ze zich en plain publique in de arm.

Plattelandsvolk.

[radje]

ik woon al +10 jaar in antwerpen en ik heb nog nooit zo'n taferelen gezien ze vriendschap

[Japisee]

radje buk u granaat

[Ja-Rune]

Originally Posted by Japisee

radje buk u granaat

Ik woon lettelijk in die buurt en heb dat nog nooit gezien ze zot.

[Japisee]

ja rune buk u der zit coke in uw kraantjeswater

[Moer]

Originally Posted by radje

ik woon al +10 jaar in antwerpen en ik heb nog nooit zo'n taferelen gezien ze vriendschap

Zegt vooral iets over Antwerpen en de vermeende grote ervan

[radje]

omdat wij geen horde drugszombies hebben? k dan

[Jack Carver]

Klopt toch gewoon
As ge in Brussel t juiste uur de alambra wijk, passeert of t stukste kleine ring tussen hallepoort en t kanaal ziet ge taferelen die ge in europe enkel voorbij t voormalig ijzeren gordijn mogelijk acht.


Vergeleken daarmee is hoboken of de luchtbal echt nog een gezellige en aangename buurt om te wonen.

Kweet toch niet of dat iets zegt over de internationale status van uwe metropol of eerder over de manier hoe t bestuurd wordt.

[]as]e]

denk toch dat de fentanyl-epidemie (nog) niet zo ver geëvolueerd is hier

[Vrieskou]

Originally Posted by Jack Carver

Klopt toch gewoon
As ge in Brussel t juiste uur de alambra wijk, passeert of t stukste kleine ring tussen hallepoort en t kanaal ziet ge taferelen die ge in europe enkel voorbij t voormalig ijzeren gordijn mogelijk acht.

Yep, zijn de ergste stukken waar dakloze heroïne-verslaafden en de problematiek die ze meebrengen samenzitten. Maar als ge dat "in europe enkel voorbij t voormalig ijzeren gordijn mogelijk acht", zou ik toch wegblijven uit Parijs, London, Lissabon, Madrid, Rotterdam, Athene, Rome,... moest ik van u zijn

[onbewust]

In de meeste steden jagen ze die zwervers gewoon weg uit het toeristisch centrum, maar in Brussel niet. Voetgangerszone is een vrijplaats geworden voor daklozen, want de politie komt nooit uit hun combi en die roma zigeuners wonen gewoon in de Nieuwstraat en wij maar dokken om een huis iet of wat in't centrum te kopen. -_-

[Vrieskou]

Originally Posted by onbewust

In de meeste steden jagen ze die zwervers gewoon weg uit het toeristisch centrum, maar in Brussel niet. Voetgangerszone is een vrijplaats geworden voor daklozen, want de politie komt nooit uit hun combi en die roma zigeuners wonen gewoon in de Nieuwstraat en wij maar dokken om een huis iet of wat in't centrum te kopen. -_-

Is toch niet waar? Politie is laatste jaar met momenten zeer driest en hardhandig te werk gegaan om de voetgangerszone en toeristische verlengstukken (bvb Varkenskaai) te "ontruimen" van storende elementen. Dat de problematiek daardoor gewoon nog meer dan vroeger doorschuift naar buurten als de Alhambra en anderen (ik woonde 5 jaar in de kaaienwijk - laatste jaar dramatisch verslecht daar ook op dat vlak) is dan weer typisch bxl kortzichtig denken

https://www.bruzz.be/samenleving/van...ven-2020-08-31
https://www.dewereldmorgen.be/artike...al-een-relaas/

"en wij maar dokken om een huis iet of wat in't centrum te kopen. -_-" :')

[onbewust]

Dat is natuurlijk mijn persoonlijke indruk en die is dat er niet veel veranderd is in het centrum. (Voor mij is dat gemakkelijkshalve wel alles binnen de vijfhoek.)
Als toeristen aankomen in de stations kunnen ze er ook niet omheen. Ongeacht of de politie erin slaagt om ze buiten het centrum te houden is het een dwaze 'oplossing'.