PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Parker administration threatened to withdraw support for the mayor’s own signature affordable housing initiative on Wednesday, during a City Council hearing on a bill to authorize the sale of bonds for the plan.
“There is one sentence in [the bill] that the Parker administration does not support,” Parker’s chief of staff Tiffany Thurman testified. “If this sentence is not amended, then we cannot and will not support this ordinance in its entirety.”
The startling position opened a new front in the power struggle between Mayor Cherelle Parker and Council over who will be eligible for programs in the $2 billion HOME initiative to build or restore 30,000 units of affordable housing…