{"id":262678,"date":"2026-08-10T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262678\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:54:09","slug":"philadelphia-hosts-workshops-to-help-residents-navigate-property-tax-reassessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262678\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Hosts Workshops to Help Residents Navigate Property Tax Reassessments"},"content":{"rendered":"

New property tax reassessments from the City of Philadelphia<\/a> are leaving some residents concerned about rising costs. These concerns are prompting city officials to host neighborhood workshops to explain available relief programs.<\/p>\n

“Kensington is one of the areas where properties have gone up 25%,” said Laura Newlin, director of housing services at New Kensington Community Development Corporation, in a statement shared with Action News 6abc<\/a>. “The rest of the city it’s 3% to 5%, but in Kensington and Kinsessing and Mantua, they’ve gone up almost 25%.”<\/p>\n

During a workshop at the Kensington Engagement Center on Thursday, Aug. 6, employees from the Philadelphia Department of Revenue and the Office of Property Assessment met with residents who said they were caught off guard by increases in their property tax assessments.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They keep charging us way more than similar properties that are in the area,” said Vince Gelormini of Kensington to 6abc. “We want to be charged like everyone else.”<\/p>\n

Council member Quetcy Lozada highlighted Homestead and LOOP relief programs, which can save homeowners up to $1,400 and $1,700, respectively. Lozada has organized about 10 roving workshops in the district to help homeowners through the reassessment.<\/p>\n

Workshops held within the neighborhoods themselves are useful for guiding homeowners on relief options where they live, rather than directing them downtown, Lozada noted.<\/p>\n

Additional relief mechanisms include tax increase freezes for senior homeowners to offset higher bills.<\/p>\n

Informal appeals are due by Sept. 1, with formal appeals due by Oct. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New property tax reassessments from the City of Philadelphia are leaving some residents concerned about rising costs. These…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-262678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262678","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=262678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}