In an April 2025 report on the housing plan, the Parker administration admits that, in light of declining federal investment ...

The city plans to use general obligation bonds to help fund its affordable housing plan, but there are limits on how much it can borrow this way. The state constitution limits Philadelphia’s ability ...

AffordableHousing.com is the first major housing-search platform to overlay Opportunity Atlas tract-level mobility data with neighborhood-level air-quality information. This dual-layer view gives ...

Supportive housing works—but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. When people picture supportive housing, they sometimes imagine a group home or a shelter. It’s neither.

Driscoll amendment gives Controller oversight of H.O.M.E. As part of City Council’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget negotiations, City Councilman Mike Driscoll (D-6th dist.) introduced an amendment that gives ...

To increase affordable housing production in rural communities, Garcia noted that Congress can adopt bipartisan solutions such as the 30% basis boost for rural housing projects proposed in the ...

Black and Hispanic Americans are paying extra money to secure rental housing in the U.S. compared with Whites, according to Zillow. In a report this week, the real estate data firm said that ...

Councilmember Nicolas O’Rourke hopes the administration is willing to use funding allocated through the Housing Opportunities Made Easy, or H.O.M.E., initiative, a $2 billion strategy rooted in ...

Separately, the council also approved the sale of $800 million in bonds to fund Mayor Cherelle Parker's Housing Opportunities Made Easy, or HOME initiative.

By the numbers: Parker will borrow $800 million to build or preserve 30,000 housing units as part of her ambitious H.O.M.E. plan for Housing Opportunities Made Easy.