PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker announced a big change to her proposal for a hotel tax increase to fund homeless services.<\/p>\n
The mayor previously proposed a 2% increase to the hotel tax to fund her goal of eliminating street homelessness. That would have brought the tax to 17.5%.<\/p>\n
Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association president Ed Grose said weeks of negotiations followed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter meetings with every City Council member, my members decided the most prudent course of action was to make a deal with the mayor,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The new proposal is for a 0.6% increase, plus a 6% tax increase on short-term rentals. <\/p>\n
Council president Kenyatta Johnson said it\u2019s a move in the right direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve made some progress, but we\u2019ll still review it as members of City Council. It just came out today, so I still want to get feedback from my members,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The tax would need state approval. The head of the Philadelphia delegation to Harrisburg, Morgan Cephas, said she\u2019s working toward consensus.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to make sure that we are lockstep together with an ask,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The new proposal would raise 15-Million. That\u2019s less than the original plan.<\/p>\n
The originally 2% proposed increase in the city’s hotel tax was expected to generate an estimated $20 million annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker announced a big change to her proposal for a hotel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32984,391,19077,69,71,70,89927],"class_list":["post-203978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-homeless-services","tag-homelessness","tag-mayor-cherelle-parker","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-hotels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}