Look up anything in Philadelphia’s public record.
Type an address, a name, or a phrase. Civus connects the record around it: hearings, decisions, permits, and the exact moment it came up on tape, all cited straight to the source.
Or browse everything: 48,289 properties, 8,241 people, and 741 organizations.
The receipts are gold
Search returns the exact passage, with the word you searched lit in gold then links straight to the official transcript and source PDF.
And every property carries its own receipt: the hearings, permits, and decisions on the record for it, down to the moment it came up on tape. Same for the people and organizations in the room.
“...the resolution affirms the city’s commitment to implementing a right to counsel in housing court proceedings, including eviction...”
“...the applicant has applied for a use variance to operate a mixed commercial and residential use in the R-10 district...”
Legalization of a rear deck and a roof deck with access structure, accessory to a single-family home.
Watch the deliberation · 2:35:03Public bodies
The bodies on the record today.
One index for every source. Each public body appears under its official name.
Philadelphia City Council
Philadelphia, PAPhiladelphia City Council Committee Hearings
Philadelphia, PAPhiladelphia Historical Commission
Philadelphia, PAPhiladelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)
Philadelphia, PAHow it works
From a question to a citation in three steps.
Search it or look it up
Full-text search across transcripts and decisions, or go straight to a property, a person, or an organization.
See it connected
Every record resolves to the parcel and the people it touches, so one page holds the whole story, with the basis for each link shown.
Link to the source
Every claim carries its citation: jump to the official PDF, or play the hearing from the second it was said.
Ask the record
Ask a question, get a cited answer.
Ask reads the record and answers with citations to the exact passages. When the record doesn’t say, it says so instead of guessing.
The roadmap
What Civus is building next.
Civus is building the connected public record of Philadelphia government: what was said, what was decided, and what happened to the places and people involved, one body at a time.
Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA)
Every hearing since 2020, searchable down to the moment a word was said.
Philadelphia City Council
Official stenographer PDF transcripts, speaker-segmented and searchable.
Philadelphia Historical Commission
Hearings, designations, and the historic decisions dashboard.
Minutes & document packets
Historical Commission minutes and supporting documents, back to the 1950s. Council document trails come next.
Registered Community Organizations
Profiles for every RCO, linked to the appeals they are noticed on and the properties in their area.
City datasets
L&I appeals with official outcomes, building permits, and 311 requests, cross-linked to properties and hearings.
Names from the transcripts
People and organizations named in Council transcripts now appear on their profiles. ZBA speech is next.
More of the record
Violations, deeds, and the rest of the paper trail, one dataset at a time.
A community layer
Curated context that neighbors maintain, clearly labeled and separate from the official record.
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