Find out who your state and federal representatives are and reach out. Tell our legislators to do their jobs to ensure education funding is preserved, the essential institutions of libraries and ...

SEPTA programs that help low-income riders maintain reliable transportation and benefit employees of our biggest institutions are at risk. Find out who represents you on the City Council and reach out ...

One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to get people the resources they need to become better, more engaged citizens of their city. Find an issue that’s important to you in the list ...

One of the founding tenets of The Philadelphia Citizen is to get people the resources they need to become better, more engaged citizens of their city. Find an issue that’s important to you in the list ...

Read the February 2025 Children First Report. There are recommendations for what actions the School District of Philadelphia, City leadership, state leadership, health care providers, the justice ...

Stay informed and engaged as the city addresses housing, development, and our budget. Find out who represents you on the City Council and reach out to let them know you want the city to reform how we ...

When Covid hit five years ago, Ellen Yin was among the hundreds of local restaurateurs forced to, as she puts it, “part ways” with her employees at Fork and the other High Street Hospitality ...

On a gray January day in 2024 — a damp, bone-cold afternoon that made me wonder why I’d come — I joined a drawn out geology tour at South Philly’s FDR Park. The problem wasn’t just the weather, it was ...

When Louis King II visited Asheville, North Carolina last year, he was struck by the destruction he saw. Cars were stranded in creek beds. Hurricane Helene’s rains and winds had damaged and destroyed ...

Find out who your state representatives are, and then find out who represents you on the City Council and reach out to let them know you want the city to enact proven solutions to our housing crisis.

Actions taken by the Administration have already eliminated fair housing protections and scaled back the HUD workforce. Further actions, if successful, could increase the cost of construction, reduce ...

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