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Parker and City Council must find common ground on affordable housing | Editorial

Officials should find ways to work together — and with private developers — to achieve the mayor's goal of 30,000 new and renovated houses through her H.O.M.E. program.

Funding for Mayor Cherelle Parker’s H.O.M.E. initiative will be delayed until next year

A key resolution needs to pass City Council before the Parker administration can sell hundreds of millions of dollars in city ...
Parker Pioneer

Madoneczky seated on Parker Council; Genc elected Vice Mayor

Some changes occurred on the Parker Town Council at their Nov. 18 meeting. Cory Madoneczky was sworn in and seated as the newest Member, while Council Member Zafer Genc was ...

No-nonsense Democrat mayor who's transforming Philadelphia ends DEI contracts because she thinks white businesses owners deserve same chance as anyone else

Parker is a tough-on-crime Democrat who defies her party's progressives, leading commentators to describe her as 'Trumpesque' ...
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Executive order replaces city contract preferences for minority- and women-owned businesses with small, local businesses

Philadelphia’s 40-year-old policy of contract quotas for women- and minority-owned businesses has officially been replaced by ...

Mayor Cherelle Parker defends ending racial diversity goals for Philly contracts: ‘Fighting the fight the way I know best’

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker faced criticism last week for quietly eliminating racial diversity goals from city contracting in what appeared to be a preemptive concession to the conservative legal ...