City Councilman Darrell L. Clarke Thursday called for Mayor Nutter to increase fivefold his administration's financial committment to affordable housing. Nutter had proposed adding $1 million to the city's affordable housing trust fund, to offset a decline in real estate recording fees that replenish the fund. But Clarke introduced legislation Thursday calling for $5 million. Clarke said the landscape has changed because more than $100 million in funds for acquiring properties that has been available for seven years through Mayor Street's Neighborhood Transformation Initiative is no longer available -- the program has ended.
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