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Wilmington Mayor Carney said he blamed other parts of the state and cities in other states for encouraging unhoused people to get services in Wilmington. In a letter to Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker in May, Carney said her office’s efforts to clear a homeless encampment on a two-block stretch of Kensington Ave were dramatically increasing the unhoused population in Delaware’s largest city.

Carney also cited media reports about Philadelphia’s program giving homeless people bus tickets to other cities and states to argue that this was also expanding Wilmington’s unhoused population.

“It’s just not right for these other places, cities and towns to send their folks to Wilmington,” he said. “The constant influx from other cities and towns makes it harder for us to care for the population here, and most importantly, it’s unfair to the city residents who live in these neighborhoods.”