When Mayor Jim Kenney’s introduced his $4.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2019 last week, most of the pushback focused on his plan for increased taxes to cover the Philadelphia School District’s $1 billion deficit. But for some members of the City Council, it was what wasn’t in the plan that grabbed their attention.
“We have HUD cutting its budget in half, and this budget does very little to address that gap,” said Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sanchez, who has introduced ambitious…
