Topic: Housing

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

If we want people who work in Philly to be able to live in Philly, change must start with bringing down the wage tax, argue champions of commercial real estate and urban development

Vienna and Maryland have invested in innovative, income diverse public housing to much acclaim. Could they work in Philly too?

Spain’s capital may be centuries older than Philadelphia. But the vibrant city offers forward-thinking growth mindset ideas our comparatively smaller (and younger) hometown should steal

Bipartisan zoning reform bills that could open up the state to in-law apartments and rooming houses could leave our city out. That would be a mistake

A new report makes the case that the right tax incentive structure — even in regulation-heavy CA — changes everything when it comes to building affordable housing.

Her budget proposes four new H.O.M.E. bills that could provide more housing and also support SEPTA. But they don’t go far enough

In all the talk over closing and fixing Philly schools, there is no mention of building new ones that might serve the community better into the future. Can we look to New York City and Boston for solutions we should steal?

The Center City legislator’s proposed bill would block more than 90 percent of city building projects, just as Mayor Parker says to build, build, build

Six years after Covid, nationwide, urban recovery is real, but it’s uneven — and newly at risk. What cities are doing it right?