Philly City Council passes restrictions on mobile van services in Kensington, bill heads to mayor’s desk

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A bill that would create regulations and restrict where mobile vans can provide health care, harm reduction supplies and other services in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood is headed to the mayor’s desk to become law.

It concludes months of emotional, tension-filled town halls, committee meetings and negotiations among community residents and outreach workers who remain at odds on how to best address the neighborhood’s homelessness and addiction crises as well as quality of life issues…

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