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That’s right next to a new apartment building. Why is it that they could build that apartment to be so beautiful but they can’t fix a house this small next to it? That house is probably like, what, two bedrooms? It says Department of Public Works on the door. Welcome to Camden.
- Beatrize C.
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"I don't get a lunch break, really. If I do take a break, they take it out of my pay. So we're entitled to a 15 minute break. My co-workers and I pool our money together to buy chips. I took this picture to show my lunch. I know my nutrition is not good."
- Quiana H.
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Thank God for layaway. You can take and layaway a few pairs of pants, or go on the sales rack and they have $3 shirts, grab the kids a few. Last week, the kids needed jackets and I went to Foreman Mills and I was on the sales rack. I was there for hours trying to find stuff on the sales rack. Two-dollar shirts, three-dollar shirts, four-dollar pair of pants… whatever you can find within your reach. I know the government, they see the people who are on Welfare and they’re wearing Gucci and Prada and Polo. If I've got something like that it must’ve been on the three-dollar rack.
- Crystal S.
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"The house caught on fire one day and our porch caught fire, too. A lot of abandoned houses [have] been catching fire in the city and it’s destroying other people homes."
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I like this mural with Malcolm X. I guess the city takes the initiative to donate money to the Mural Arts Program so that they can paint nice pictures on the side of the abandoned building, but they won’t pay to fix the abandoned buildings up. I don’t understand that, but, hey, it makes the city look a little nicer.
- Erica S.
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Graffiti is everywhere… everywhere. It’s like wallpaper, it won’t go away.
- Ashley O.
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You never know what goes on behind closed doors. Some people need to know exactly how we’re living being single moms, being that we’re on our own and we don’t have that many opportunities. When something breaks, we may not be able to fix it because we have limited income. It’s really hard to try to get everything fixed. […] How would my neighbor actually try to work with something like that? Being in a situation like that, your kids can stay hungry.
- Barbie I.
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Dornsife School of Public Health 
Drexel University 
