During his first term on City Council, Allan pushed for more careful oversight of city funds, including passing legislation to establish independent audits and property appraisals. He also renewed efforts to collect delinquent taxes that out-of-town landlords owe to the city and passed legislation to streamline all aspects of city government to make it more efficient.

Every year, Allan donates his City Council salary to the School District of Philadelphia. He has advocated for making financial literacy and technology training, including coding, the cornerstone of public education in Philadelphia. So far, Allan has paid for 122 public school teachers to take financial literacy courses at the Federal Reserve Bank so that they can teach financial literacy to our students, and he has sponsored coding programs in 25 Philadelphia public schools.

Through his work on City Council, Allan has sought to promote job growth through the retention of existing business and by attracting new businesses to Philadelphia. As someone who has helped create thousands of jobs in our city, Allan is also committed to the fair treatment of workers and keeping the city’s pension promises.

Allan believes in second chances and giving returning citizens the opportunities they need to thrive. In 2018, Allan began sponsoring and paying for a financial literacy course for returning citizens, and Allan has offered to pay for financial literacy courses for every citizen returning from the city’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in 2019. Allan is also paying $35,000 for the first-ever prison coding and tech class program, taught by Sylvester Mobley of Coded by Kids. Allan and the program hope to have fifteen returning citizens in the first class trained in technology and coding so that these citizens can obtain good-paying jobs in the tech world.