Topic: City Budget

Want to grow our city? The path, the Center for Black Educator Development’s founder argues, is through our children’s classrooms

Ideas are out there, in places like New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh, to mitigate federal cuts. A local tax and economic policy analyst asks: Why doesn’t Philly steal them?

City Council has one chance to get rideshare taxation right, says an urbanist and strategist. His solution combines the ideas of Parker, Uber and economics 101

Philadelphia's FY27 budget and the failure to think bigger, says a former member of Philadelphia City Council

In partnership with Committee of Seventy, a breakdown per person of how the Mayor wants to use your money next year.

It’s budget season, time for Philadelphians to comment on how the City should spend their money in the coming year. Mural Arts helps you do it

A visual representation of the per-resident cost of the City's budget — and how it has changed from last year — in partnership with Committee of Seventy

Mayor Parker’s $2 billion initiative to build or rehab 30,000 affordable homes includes $800 million in municipal bonds — which might come with their own hefty price tag

Yes, we need more affordable homes for more Philadelphians. This is an underlooked way to get there

Cherelle Parker’s budget boiled down to jobs versus housing. Did she and City Council make the right bet?