{"id":136694,"date":"2026-03-12T20:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136694\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:06:06","slug":"philadelphia-budget-parker-proposes-amazon-uber-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/136694\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia budget: Parker proposes Amazon, Uber taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker on Thursday called for installing a \u201cPhilly GPS\u201d \u2014 short for growth, prosperity and security \u2014 in what she described as a \u201croadmap to self-sufficiency, a path that makes it easier for every Philadelphian to move up, not just get by.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The plan includes spending more money \u2014 from $10 million to support a modular home factory to $25 million for community-based anti-violence services to keep the city safer.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a budget address to City Council that clocked in at two hours and eight minutes, beating President Donald Trump\u2019s record-setting one-hour, 47-minute State of the Union address, Parker started by talking about what she sees as her administration\u2019s accomplishments and the city\u2019s ability to survive a rough economy, albeit with more than a billion dollars in federal COVID funding.\n  <\/p>\n<p>That money is gone now, and the city\u2019s plan is to set aside $91 million on reserve, just in case the Trump administration cuts funding to the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>The mayor said she wants to provide people with the ability to move forward economically.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we get this right \u2014 by making value-driven, data-informed investments \u2014 Philadelphia can become the national model for economic mobility. This is our moment, our chance to do what no city has done before,\u201d Parker said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Parker\u2019s plan includes spending to support her initiative against homelessness, an effort that aims to add 1,000 new shelter beds in city-owned and city-leased facilities.\n<\/p>\n<p>To pay for that, Budget Director Sabrina Maynard said there will be an additional 2% added to the cost of renting a hotel room in the city.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is something that would bring in $20 million a year, our ambitious goal is to end street homelessness in Philadelphia,\u201d Maynard said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The plan would also help spruce up city facilities, including some famous destinations.\n<\/p>\n<p>The plan proposes $33 million over the capital program dedicated to HVAC upgrades at libraries.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9537,69,71,70,19078],"class_list":["post-136694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-cherelle-parker","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phillys-100th-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}