{"id":461119,"date":"2025-12-21T00:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461119\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T00:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T00:34:18","slug":"philadelphia-mayors-plan-adds-1000-beds-to-address-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461119\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia mayor\u2019s plan adds 1,000 beds to address homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker unveiled her plans to tackle homelessness in Philadelphia on Friday during her annual State of the City address.\n<\/p>\n<p>Parker signed an executive order following her speech at the Temple Performing Arts Center. The plan, which Parker has dubbed the One Philly Plan to End Street Homelessness, is a partnership with Jefferson Hospital to add 1,000 extra beds to provide shelter to those living on Philadelphia\u2019s streets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI commit to you on this day, as mayor of this city, that we will bring 1,000 new beds online this winter to help end street homelessness in Philadelphia,\u201d she said.\n  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The extra beds will not only be available just in the winter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeking long-term solutions,\u201d she said. \u201cThis might be the first step that someone takes into addiction treatment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/media\/20240923121315\/OHS-PIT-Count-Summary-Report-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 Point in Time survey<\/a>, which tabulates the number of people experiencing homelessness at one given time, more than 4,200 people were living in some type of shelter program in the city. Another 976 were living on the streets, an increase of more than 200 from the year before.\n<\/p>\n<p>Parker said this is just a \u201cfirst step\u201d to combatting homelessness in the city.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-725931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-19-e-lee-cherelle-parker-philadelphia-temple-performing-arts-center-state-of-the-city-wide-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Cherelle Parker is on stage speaking at a podium\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Mayor Cherelle Parker delivers her State of the City Speech at Temple Performing Arts Center. (Emma Lee\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not what our commitment is. This is not just about homelessness overall because there are different levels to homelessness,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said her commitment is specifically to end on-street homelessness and help the estimated 1,000 people who live on city streets.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,20497,7265,1448,2830,1311,210447,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-461119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-cherelle-parker","10":"tag-homelessness","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-sisterly-affection","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115754754565461513","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}