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Zohran Mamdani has big housing plans. Here’s what stands in the way
New York City frontrunner for mayor Zohran Mamdani has an ambitious agenda to tackle the city’s housing crisis. But the spiraling costs to develop affordable housing, President Donald Trump’s efforts ...
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What’s Hidden in Parker’s Housing Plan?
In an April 2025 report on the housing plan, the Parker administration admits that, in light of declining federal investment ...
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Breathe Easy, Move Up: AffordableHousing.com's New Maps Show Renters Where Opportunity and Clean Air Collide
AffordableHousing.com is the first major housing-search platform to overlay Opportunity Atlas tract-level mobility data with neighborhood-level air-quality information. This dual-layer view gives ...
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Philly training program for minority developers will help fuel Mayor Parker’s housing plan. ‘An opportunity to change your life.’
The administration wants to ramp up homebuilding on vacant land. Graduates of the Minority Developer Program are positioned ...
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Philadelphia passes city's $13B budget, funding infastructure, anti-violence and HOME initative
Separately, the council also approved the sale of $800 million in bonds to fund Mayor Cherelle Parker's Housing Opportunities Made Easy, or HOME initiative.
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City Council approves Mayor Parker's H.O.M.E. plan for affordable housing | PhillyVoice
The top-ticket items were Mayor Cherelle Parker's Housing Opportunities Made Easy plan — a $2 billion effort that calls for building and preserving 30,000 units — and the increase of the city ...
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Philadelphia Mayor Secures $800 Million for Housing Fund
As part of the city’s new $7 billion budget, the City Council approved bonding authority for Mayor Cherelle Parker's plan to create or preserve 30,000 housing units.
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Council committees vote out bills for Philly mayor's budget, housing plan
It took an extra day but three City Council committees advanced legislation for the upcoming budget and Housing Opportunities Made Easy, or H.O.M.E. plan.
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Mayor Cherelle Parker and Philly Council reach $6.8 billion deal for the next city budget - The Daily Gazette
In the end, lawmakers green-lit wage and business tax cuts proposed by Parker in March as well as the mayor’s request for $800 million in borrowing authority to support her Housing Opportunities ...
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Philadelphia looks to speed affordable housing construction
That would come in the form of the city borrowing $800 million in bonds to support the Philadelphia Housing Opportunities Made Easy (HOME) initiative.
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A New Executive Order Gives Housing Discrimination a Leg Up
A New Executive Order Gives Housing Discrimination a Leg Up Op-ed: The Trump administration has taken a hammer to fair housing enforcement. Now, it’s halted use of disparate impact analysis, which ...
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Philadelphia Launches H.O.M.E. Initiative to Transform Housing with
Philadelphia's housing landscape is set for a notable transformation, as Mayor Parker's H.O.M.E. (Housing Opportunities Made Easy) Initiative promises to be the largest endeavor of its kind in the ...