Economic Development

As job losses soar, Philadelphia homeowners risk foreclosure, but the city’s free housing assistance hotline can help them get mortgage relief.

Three weeks after announcing the PHL COVID-19 Fund, the city has released $2 million to frontline nonprofits.

Union officials allege that the general contractors on several high-profile Philadelphia projects were not complying with CDC regulations.

A guide to the landscape of loans, grants and other funding options.

Philadelphia may begin testing a cash subsidy pilot in 2020, city policymakers and nonprofit leaders revealed Tuesday at a press conference. 

The proposals include providing rent subsidies, guaranteed income and increasing the availability of adult education.

Taking page from urban enterprise-zone playbook, yet-to-be written legislation would cut sales taxes and offer property-tax relief

We have a crisis of exclusion within the building industry.

New West Philly Councilmember Jamie Gauthier is challenging a Philadelphia Housing Authority plan to sell two of the last public housing high-rises in her district.

“It is something that is ever-present, this issue of transition.”

A new development project in North Philly is taking a unique approach to employ more people of color — and it seems to be working.

As Carney looked back on the past year, he said he was proud of investments in transportation, including $10 million for the new Transportation Infrastructure Fund.

A proposal to make Jewelers’ Row a historic district is reigniting a battle over the future of the changing Center City neighborhood.

Julie Coker is moving on after four years of leading the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The economic development agency’s incoming chief has her eye on creating “family-sustaining” jobs in sectors less likely to fall prey to automation.