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The Kensington Welfare Rights Union is a progressive social justice, political action, and advocacy group of, by, and for the poor and homeless operating out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and led by Galen Tyler. The group was founded by Cheri Honkala and formed in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood in April of 1991.The KWRU was written about in the book Myth of the Welfare Queen by writer and journalist David Zucchino.