Coming together \u2018with urgency and purpose\u2019<\/p>\n
In December, Council approved the first annual budget<\/a> for the H.O.M.E. plan.\n<\/p>\n The measure calls for $277 million in spending for more than two dozen programs for renters and homeowners, many of which already exist.\n<\/p>\n The vote came amid intense pressure from the Parker administration, which strongly opposed changes made to the measure to prioritize Philadelphia\u2019s lowest-income households. It also triggered changes to the bond bill first passed in June, requiring Council to pass the amended legislation before the funding for the plan could be unlocked.\n<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear when the funding will start flowing.\n <\/p>\n The updated budget measure is considered a major win for progressives<\/a>. It includes increased funding for affordable housing preservation and production, a popular home repair program, and an effort to help tenants facing eviction and homelessness.\n<\/p>\n The resolution also changed how funding will be allocated for two of the city\u2019s most in-demand housing programs.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe final H.O.M.E. Year One Budget represents what\u2019s possible when lawmakers, housing experts, and community advocates come together with urgency and purpose,\u201d Councilmembers Jaime Gauthier and Rue Landau, chair and vice-chair of Council\u2019s housing committee, wrote in a joint statement.\n<\/p>\n Under the legislation, 90% of funding for the Basic Systems Repair Program and the Adaptive Modifications Program will go to households earning up to 60% of area median income, or about $71,640 annually for a family of four. The data point includes some areas of the Philly suburbs, South Jersey and Maryland.\n<\/p>\n The remaining 10% will go toward households earning between 60% and 100% of the area median income, or annual incomes between about $71,640 and $119,400 for a family of four.\n<\/p>\n In the months before the vote, lawmakers had clashed with the mayor\u2019s administration over those details, including a war of words between Parker and Johnson. The mayor and her administration also actively lobbied lawmakers in hopes of changing the outcome. And Parker took her message on the road, spending hours one Sunday pushing her vision for H.O.M.E. at nearly a dozen churches<\/a> in the city.\n<\/p>\n Since the start, the administration has been adamant that the mayor\u2019s plan serves everyone<\/a> who needs help with housing \u2014 from low-income renters to middle-income homeowners. And she vowed to never engage in policymaking<\/a> that pits the \u201chave-nots against those who have just a little.\u201d\n<\/p>\n However, lawmakers, particularly Council\u2019s progressive bloc, have argued the city has a duty to help its most vulnerable households first.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming together \u2018with urgency and purpose\u2019 In December, Council approved the first annual budget for the H.O.M.E. plan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2313,69,71,70,2312],"class_list":["post-93937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-affordable-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\/93937","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=93937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}