PHILADELPHIA - Eviction day is looming for those living in protest encampments across Philadelphia.It was all quiet at the homeless encampment along the Ben Franklin Parkway Tuesday. "We still need this.
This encampment to get us squared away with our life. We need this," Jamall Hender said.With a 9 a.m. Wednesday deadline looming, there were no tents being taken down and no bags packed.
The city gave the encampment 72 hours notice ordered by a judge.The Parkway encampment has stood on a baseball field on the parkway since June 10 and has grown to an estimated 100 to 150 people.Advertisement"There is nothing we would like more for everyone at that encampment to voluntarily de-camp and we'll find them a safe place to be," Mayor Jim Kenney.