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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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Here, I was trying to help my little girl make bracelets, while I was also trying to write a paper and do homework. I have twelve more credits and I’ll be done with my Associate’s. In September or January, I’m going to change my major to forensics. I don’t know what school I’ll go to, I don’t want to pay much. I have to look around, bargain around.
- Yesenia D.
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Those are abandoned houses behind my yard. Those two houses were set on fire--that got my daughter sick for a week with her asthma. I hate it. I hate this neighborhood.
- Angelica R
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We need new playgrounds. Kids need a place to play. There used to be a playground here, but they knocked it down. When kids don't have a safe place to play, they can get in trouble.
- Tera M.
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Graffiti is everywhere… everywhere. It’s like wallpaper, it won’t go away.
- Ashley O
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I make him wear a tie and shoes to school, just to teach him how to be a young man. A lot of times I don't make him wear it because the other kids don't, but at least once a week I make him wear his tie and his pants and his shoes. I make him go to school like a gentleman
- Angela M
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I’m just tired, I’m just all tired. I just wanna get my daughter away from here and get my family away from this because it’s like they don’t care about the low-income people. If you’re not making enough money as they’re making, they don’t bother it. And I don’t think it’s right, I don’t think it’s right to us.
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There are so many empty places that can be built up for people to work in, creating more jobs. I would turn this into a restaurant or something.
- Kathy
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I think my water heater has a leak. I’m waiting to fix my rent problem, so I can call the landlord.
- Angelica R
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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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All you can do is pray and try and keep them off these streets because out here there is just so much going on right now. Just like we had a shooting the other day and they locked the school down. There are guns and stuff everywhere but now I think it’s getting bad because there are more drugs going on around here now. My son, the nineteen year-old, has already been caught in like two shootouts.
- Anisa D.
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This makes me sad. It's a shame that you have to stand in long lines for housing. It's also unfortunate that they kicked out the "foreigners" who were not willing to be fight or be loud. Why do you have to fight or be loud for a basic human right?
- Lelise C.
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I was on my way to the overtime job that I was doing when I got my food stamps cut off. They had called me to work there for one day. So, I was thinking to myself, “Well, if I go down here this one day, are they going cut my food stamps off? I really didn’t know what to do. At the time I was walking through there, it made me think, “Was I going to get cut off again?” What kind of programs can the City do to help us stay on the food stamp program when we do extra work? I don’t think it’s fair for us to get reprimanded for doing something positive. That’s why I chose that picture."
- Imani S
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"It never ends because I got through one stack of papers to file like that this week. I have another stack that big in a drawer, plus the lady keeps coming and bringing more and more paperwork. I’m like, how the heck am I going to get through all this paperwork? My supervisor said, 'Oh no, you’re not going to get through it. You’re never gonna finish and it’s never going to be gone.'"
- Joanna C
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“He was born premature. He was born drug exposed so he came into this world with a lot of downfalls. Once he came into good care, myself being his father, I’ve been trying to teach him that even though you came into this world messed up, your body was messed up, and your mind was kind of screwed up too, I’ve got you, with the grace of God helping us.”
- Milton C.
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Dornsife School of Public Health 
Drexel University 
