Grier Clark, who recently bought a home near the site, said the overgrown lots were a constant eyesore when she was a kid, prompting her family to pay to have them cleared in hopes of discouraging illegal dumping.<\/p>\n
The lots were later fenced off and maintained by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society but remained undeveloped until now, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo now be able to look out of the house right now and see the structure of these new homes go up, it is like night and day. My family is extremely elated. We\u2019re so happy that this is coming and we\u2019re happy that we finally have new neighbors across the street. And we\u2019re excited to welcome more people to the community,\u201d Clark said before Monday\u2019s ceremony.<\/p>\n
Turn the Key launched more than four years ago as part of the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, a $400 million plan initiated by former Council President Darrell Clarke to increase the city\u2019s stock of affordable housing, revive commercial corridors, and improve neighborhood infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The program is now a sizable piece<\/a> of the Housing Opportunities Made Easy initiative, the Parker administration\u2019s $2 billion plan<\/a> to build and preserve 30,000 homes citywide. The mayor has vowed to put the program \u201con steroids\u201d under the initiative, commonly referred to as H.O.M.E.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grier Clark, who recently bought a home near the site, said the overgrown lots were a constant eyesore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2313,4736,69,71,70,2312],"class_list":["post-207860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-affordable-housing","tag-housing","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-planphilly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207860","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=207860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}