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PACDC testifies before City Council on the FY21 Budget, Year 46 Consolidated Plan, and Year 45 Consolidated Plan amendments.

PACDC testified before City Council’s Committee of the Whole on May 27, 2020 on the FY21 budget, and the importance of the Housing Trust Fund and commercial corridor programs. We also testified before Council’s Committee on Finance on June 6, 2020 as the Consolidated Plan for FY21 (Year 46) was being considered, as well as […]

Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon urges HUD to extend deadline for housing counselor certification

PACDC applauds Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-5) for submitting a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson urging the agency to extend the August 1, 2020 deadline for housing counseling certification for a year to August 2021. The letter was co-signed by all three Philadelphia Congressmembers including Representative Dwight Evans (PA-3) and Brendan […]

PACDC Releases COVID-19 Policy Agenda

PACDC released a policy agenda calling for protections for renters, home owners, small businesses, and the non-profits that serve them, to help Philadelphia make it through the immediate COVID-19 crisis. This agenda calls on our representatives in Washington D.C., Harrisburg, and Philadelphia City Hall, as well as philanthropists, to make significant investments in programs to: […]