Topic: City Budget
Mayor Parker’s Budget, by the Numbers
In partnership with Committee of Seventy, a breakdown per person of how the Mayor wants to use your money next year.
By Nick Hand
Have Your Say in the City Budget
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
By Natalie Pompilio
How Mayor Parker Is Spending Your Money in 2026
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
By Nick Hand
What’s Hidden in Parker’s Housing Plan?
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
By Jade Craig
In Defense of Market-Rate Housing
Yes, we need more affordable homes for more Philadelphians. This is an underlooked way to get there
By Jon Geeting
Mayoral Misdiagnosis?
Cherelle Parker’s budget boiled down to jobs versus housing. Did she and City Council make the right bet?
By Larry Platt
Parker’s Gun Violence Prevention Plan
The Mayor’s budget would maintain programs that she says helped drive down shootings, despite uncertainty under President Donald Trump
By Mensah M. Dean
Move Fast and Build Things
What if Philly and other cities actually fixed problems ... quickly?
By Diana Lind
What’s the Plan, Cherelle?
Bringing city workers back sends an important "open for business" message. But a new report shows Philly lagging behind in adjusting to work from home. Is now the time for a broad economic revival plan?
By Larry Platt
When a Civics Lesson is also an Artwork
Phoebe Bachman builds opportunities for collaboration and civic engagement, including a pop-up space that artistically re-imagines the City’s budget office, open now at LOVE Park. The latest in a series with Forman Arts Initiative.
By RJ Rushmore