{"id":307614,"date":"2026-10-16T01:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307614\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:54:07","slug":"more-homeless-in-center-city-northeast-with-less-in-kensington-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/307614\/","title":{"rendered":"More homeless in Center City, Northeast with less in Kensington \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 5,100 people in Philadelphia are struggling with homelessness in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The total number of people without permanent housing is down 6% compared to last year\u2019s Point in Time count, according to the summary report released first to NBC10.<\/p>\n<p>The number of people living in shelters has increased compared to 2025 while those living on the streets dropped.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 700 people are sleeping on city streets, according to the report. In the last year, Center City and the far Northeast saw an increase in the number of people who are sleeping outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve definitely been seeing more people experiencing homelessness in Center City in comparison to last year,\u201d Mike Johnson, Director of Development for Philly House, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there\u2019s been a drop in the unsheltered population in Kensington.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decrease in Kensington aligns with additional law enforcement actions in that neighborhood,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cSo, it looks like some people are relocating from areas of higher enforcement to areas of lower enforcement.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, about 30% of the city\u2019s unhoused population remains in that part of the city.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking longer term, the city has seen a nearly 15.6% increase in its unhoused population over the last five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 5,100 people in Philadelphia are struggling with homelessness in 2026.\u00a0 The total number of people without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-307614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}