Mayor Cherelle Parker is offering a nearly $7 billion budget as she proposes major investments in housing and pushes ahead with her plans to clean up Kensington.

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s second budget address to Philadelphia City Council sounded in many ways like an ordinary mayoral speech, with Parker waxing poetic about heroic first responders, touting wins during her first year,

Philadelphia would cut business tax rates every year and begin spending hundreds of millions of newly allocated dollars on housing and drug treatment programs under a proposed 2026 budget Mayor Cherelle Parker presented Thursday.