The bill would prohibit the city from renewing its lease at the facility, which is up in 2026. The Parker administration opposes the legislation.
Councilmember Jeffery Young, Jr. speaks in Philadelphia City Council in January. Young authored a bill that would block the city from renewing its lease at a shelter facility at 2100 W. Girard Ave. in Fairmount following community uproar.Philadelphia lawmakers are a step closer to blocking Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration from renewing a lease at a
“We should have been more proactive in our communication,” Parker said. “You’re never going to hear me or anybody in this administration falter if we’ve made a mistake.” Wilson wrote that the legislation “does not align with the administration’s vision and commitment to provide long-term care, treatment, and housing to our most vulnerable residents.”
“We put this bill in to have a substantive conversation with the administration about the property,” he said, adding that Fairmount residents are “owed a conversation, a public conversation, a transparent conversation.”
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