Philadelphia's First Black Woman Mayor Cherelle Parker Inaugurated with Ambitious 100-Day Action Plan

Parker Declares Public Safety Emergency, Plans for Carbon Neutrality and Affordable Housing in Comprehensive Strategy

Cherelle Parker was inaugurated as Philadelphia's 100th mayor and the city's first black woman mayor, with a 100-day action plan focusing on public safety, quality-of-life issues, housing, economic opportunity, education, and a 'roundtables' initiative.
Parker declared a public safety emergency to address violent crime and plans to have more police deployed on the street, and to shut down the open-air drug market in Kensington.
Parker's plan calls for hitting carbon neutrality goals, improving public transit and planting more trees in the city, and addressing problems like illegal dumping, graffiti, abandoned cars and cleaning commercial areas more frequently.
She plans to support housing production and preservation, ordering the Department of Planning and Development to create a plan for 'affordable luxury' for low- and middle-income families.
For education, Parker plans to create two working groups: one on full-day and year-round schooling and another on modernizing school buildings.