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
The Citizen Recommends

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
The New Urban Order

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
Art for Change

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