PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, now halfway through her first term, shows no signs of slowing down her efforts to solve some of the city’s most intractable problems.
“I’m a doer, by nature, I’m a fixer,” she said in a year-end interview with KYW Newsradio. “My job is to bring a sense of hope and pride and dignity back to the people and to make them believe in our city and that this local government can work again for them.”
In her first year, she set her sights on restoring order to Kensington. In 2025, she set in motion a plan to build, save, or restore 30,000 units of affordable housing. For 2026, with the built-in pressure of being a major site for that nation’s semiquincentennial celebration and hosting a myriad of special events, she has taken on her boldest mission yet—to end street homelessness…