Aaron Moselle

Mayor Cherelle Parker wants City Council to approve her housing plan and the city’s next budget in tandem. Summer recess is scheduled to start June 12.

The legislation is part of a broader effort to increase the city’s supply of affordable housing while blunting the financial burden of renting a new place.

The pilot is designed to help low-income renters whose homes need noncosmetic repairs.

A bill moving through City Council would require developers to legally commit to creating affordable housing they’ve promised the community.

The city’s Streets Department has started installing the vertical deflection devices as part of a pilot project designed to make the state road safer.

Supporters say the measure closes a loophole created by an incentive program designed to create more affordable housing in the city.

The 1985 bombing claimed the lives of 11 people, including five children, and destroyed dozens of homes in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia.

The mayor wants Council to adopt her Housing Opportunities Made Easy initiative in tandem with the city’s next budget. Lawmakers will put their $.02 in before that happens.

Built in the 1990s, Philadelphia’s Kings Highway Apartments comprises 27 buildings along Frankford Avenue. Odin Properties bought and renovated them last year.

The proposal may violate state law. It comes as the administration seeks to expand the city’s housing supply amid an ongoing crisis.

The affordable housing complex is gone, but a new development will rise in its place following a legal settlement with the city.

The $6.3 billion plan is designed to help address Philadelphia's deepening affordable housing crisis.