In an April 2025 report on the housing plan, the Parker administration admits that, in light of declining federal investment ...

The administration wants to ramp up homebuilding on vacant land. Graduates of the Minority Developer Program are positioned to do the work.

Philadelphia City Council just approved Mayor Parker’s signature housing proposal. Here’s what you need to know The $2 billion plan — the Housing Opportunities Made Easy initiative — is rooted in ...

For decades, the state’s landmark environmental law made it easy to block home construction. A new law changes that.

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 ...

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 ...

Southwest Side Ald. Marty Quinn (13th) wants to raise the threshold for approving City Hall borrowing from a simple majority, ...

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.