Where does public money
go in ?
434€per Parisian per month
11,02 Bn € voted budget this year
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- PlacesPools, parks, theatres: decisions, archives and public money.
- BudgetThe flow of revenues to spending of the City.
- InvestmentsWhich projects the City funds, and where.
- GrantsRecipients and their amounts.
- Public contractsEvery company paid by the City.
- Debt & assetsWhat the City owns, what it owes.
- Social housingFunded operations and their social landlords.
The analyses.
Investigations and comparisons, sourced from the official accounts.
Grants Paris: €1.35Bn in 2024, 60% to 200 public operators
Of 1,353 M€ paid to 5,948 beneficiaries in 2024, 816 M€ went to 201 public establishments — CASVP leading the pack at €416M. The 2,769 actual Paris associations shared 280 M€ between them. Anatomy of a little-known cascade.
The municipal golden rule: what article L.1612-4 actually says
A municipality cannot borrow to pay its salaries. This rule, codified in article L.1612-4 of the Code général des collectivités territoriales, is what radically separates a municipal budget from the State's. Anatomy of a short text and its consequences.
Paris 2024: anatomy of a delivery peak
Between 2022 and 2024, the Ville de Paris delivered 48 sports and cultural facilities tied to the Games. Investment up 22%, six cost overruns above 30%, one cancellation, ongoing litigation. Accounting reconstruction of a cycle unlike any other.
Auditable.
Every source is public
Annual financial accounts of the City, open datasets on opendata.paris.fr, deliberations of the Conseil de Paris: 199 official datasets aligned over several years, including those extracted from PDFs where Open Data stops.
See sources →Every figure traces back to its source
The pipeline cleans labels, cross-checks sources and matches the totals against the official documents. More than 170 automated checks run on every update.
Read the method →The pipeline is open
Extraction, cleaning, transformations, checks: everything is published under the AGPL-3.0 free licence. Anyone can download it, run it and recompute every figure from the official documents.
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