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City council held a public hearing on Philadelphia’s housing crisis. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle has the details.

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker will visit several churches in the city on Sunday, Dec. 7, to discuss her $2 billion H.O.M.E. housing initiative, her office announced.

Plans for the first year of the H.O.M.E. program have been up for debate , with the Philadelphia City Council and many activists wanting the initial money to go toward the city's most vulnerable residents and clearing the lines to get into affordable housing units.

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However, Mayor Parker's administration has said it also wants to see funds used to help middle class families who "have just a little b

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