The office’s former director said they were operating under extraordinary circumstances: “Sometimes you have to choose: Am I going to be a good bureaucrat? Or am I going to save people’s lives?”
An unhoused person sleeps on the steps of the Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul on 18th Street as Amy Herlich and Tom Marvit conduct the city's winter count of people living on the streets in January.On paper, the Philadelphia agency that is tasked with sheltering the city’s thousands of homeless people weathered the pandemic well.
Others say the Office of Homeless Services should have been able to work within its budget — which increased substantially during the period in question — and the ordeal has raised fresh questions about how a city agency could overspend for several years without more scrutiny. “We are going to make sure that we have our house in order in OHS,” Managing Director Adam K. Thiel said, adding that Parker is “keenly interested in this.”Councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson, the Democratic majority leader, was one of the first to raise alarm about the office’s budgeting practices and said she’s “deeply concerned that this has gotten so far and that it has gone on for so long.
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker orders independent investigation of the Office of Homeless Services Hersh said her office was responsible for making the building inhabitable, despite it having millions of dollars in deferred maintenance, a busted HVAC system, and a refrigerator that broke shortly after people moved in.
Philly City Council wants more oversight of the Office of Homeless Services amid questions about its finances
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