Daily News | ‘Dismal’: Philadelphians are down on their city as the mayor’s race looms, a new poll shows
said that they believed that the city was headed in the wrong direction. This time around, 65% gave that response, an increase surely impacted by the pandemic’s strain on the economy, schools and government resources, and a spike in gun violence.
Lamar works as a home health aide and an Uber driver to support herself and her kids, who are 8 and 2. Couillard says his assessment is based mostly on the cumulative impact of news reports, not direct experience with violence. He hasn’t been to Center City — consistently one of the areas of the city with the fewest violent crimes — in nearly eight years.
Women were slightly more likely than men to say the city was on the wrong track. People who said they have heard gunshots in their neighborhood — an astounding two out of three respondents — were also more likely to view the city’s direction negatively. Madison, who grew up in Germantown, also lamented the state of recreation centers, which he said look the same way they did when he was growing up.
“Why are we dumping all this money into apartments but not dumping money into our education system?” Benson asked.
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