Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the operating budget and providing for a mandatory fifty million dollar ($50,000,000) minimum annual appropriation to the Housing Trust Fund or any such successor financial facility or such successor financial facilities; and providing for the submission of the proposed amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
Introduced March 1, 2018
Councilmember Oh
Referred to the
Committee on Law and Government
RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter relating to the operating
budget and providing for a mandatory fifty million dollar ($50,000,000) minimum annual
appropriation to the Housing Trust Fund or any such successor financial facility or such
successor financial facilities; and providing for the submission of the proposed
amendment to the electors of Philadelphia.
WHEREAS, Philadelphia persists as the poorest big city in the nation. That poverty is
concentrated in historically underserved communities with substandard schools,
unemployment, drug use, crime, and the costs of housing rising much faster than
incomes. Philadelphia is experiencing an “Affordable Housing Crisis, with
gentrification causing a dramatic decline of affordable housing: it is increasingly difficult
for poor Philadelphians to find places to live; and
WHEREAS, Under Section 6 of the First Class City Home Rule Act (53 P.S. §13106), an
amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter may be proposed by a resolution of
the Council of the City of Philadelphia adopted with the concurrence of two-thirds of its
elected members; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That the
following amendment to the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter is hereby proposed and
shall be submitted to the electors of the City of Philadelphia on an election date
designated by ordinance: