{"id":82824,"date":"2026-01-09T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82824\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T23:16:28","slug":"meet-allentowns-newest-city-council-member-cristian-pungo-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82824\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Allentown\u2019s newest city council member, Cristian Pungo | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The city of Allentown has a new member of City Council.<\/p>\n<p>Cristian Pungo was sworn in Monday, along with Jeremy Binder.<\/p>\n<p>Pungo is 28 years old, a first-generation Latino American, and is bilingual. He tells 69 News his goal is to help build up Allentown, with a focus on expanding affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>He says one reason he decided to run was to bring change to City Council and the mayor&#8217;s office. Pungo believes a contentious relationship between the two can hurt the city and says he wants to see more unity moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; The city of Allentown has a new member of City Council. Cristian Pungo was sworn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2313,119,121,120,41701,990,39641,39642,41700,84,41702],"class_list":{"0":"post-82824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-bilingual","13":"tag-city-council","14":"tag-cristian-pungo","15":"tag-jeremy-binder","16":"tag-latino-american","17":"tag-mayor","18":"tag-unity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82824","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=82824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}