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Philadelphia’s homeless problem is now plaguing subway commuters

By Christopher Tremoglie
Published March 18, 2022 12:30pm ET
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Philadelphia’s homeless problem is now plaguing subway commuters
FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, a man stands outside his tent on Division Street in San Francisco. San Francisco voters will decide in November 2018 whether to tax large businesses to pay for homeless and housing services in a city struggling with income inequality. Supporters collected enough signatures to get the measure on the ballot. | (Eric Risberg/AP)

Philadelphia has a homelessness problem, and it is affecting the passengers of the city’s public transit system.

When the COVID-19 pandemic began, significantly fewer people used the subway. During this time, many of the city’s homeless started setting up encampments on the city’s subway concourses. It would not be uncommon for those who did use the subway to be harassed or to witness many of them injecting drugs into their bodies. In several instances, there were reports of homeless people defecating in public.

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