Philadelphia demolition in the news for all the wrong reasons again.
Several residents were evacuated on Monday after officials announced their South Philadelphia homes were in danger of collapse.
Officials recently demolished a home on the 1800 block of Carpenter Street in South Philadelphia. As contractors were working on the foundation of the site Monday night, they discovered that the two homes on each side of it were beginning to crumble and on the verge of collapse.
“I went inside the house and there were cracks all in the walls,” said a woman who lives in one of the damaged homes and did not want to be identified. “Both on the side that’s falling down and the opposite side of the house.”
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