PHILADELPHIA - An emergency hearing is underway Thursday to decide the fate of a homeless encampment along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Protesters have spent over two months camped out calling for policy changes regarding the homeless and low-income housing.The tent encampment has stood on a baseball field on the parkway since June 10 and has grown to an estimated 100 to 150 people.Philadelphia Housing Action — the coalition of groups that organized the encampment — said it was conceived as a form of political protest over city policies toward the homeless and the lack of low-income housing in the city.Mayor Jim Kenney said Tuesday the city has been willing to meet over 20 of the protesters' demands.City officials say one of the demands.
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