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Ahead of the Parker administration’s planned clearance of Kensington Avenue, drug users in the neighborhood say they’ve experienced intensifying police harassment of late. Plus, home-buying help.

A sign informing people along Kensington Avenue that on Wednesday, May 8, the city will be removing tents and other structures from the avenue.

The surge came ahead of the administration’s first clearance of a Kensington Avenue homeless encampment, planned for this Wednesday.While encampment clearances and police activity in the area aren’t new, the tenor of recent interactions with law enforcement is markedly more aggressive since Parker took office, the people most directly affected by them say.

That’s what Shirda Hudson once said about homeownership, feeling like it was out of reach partly because of her student loan debt.

 

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