Making Pittsburgh Great Again?
URA/Private Partners Renew Push For Controversial Project OPN‘s investigative article in March 2016 about a Public/Private partnership formed between the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), University […]
Development
Protesters Occupy Trees in Battle Over ETC Pipeline
by Michael Bagdes-Canning Federal Marshals with automatic weapons and bullet proof vests. Sheriff’s deputies and state troopers dispatched to “keep people safe.” Something terrible must […]
URA Files Suspect Development Grant Without Consulting Residents
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an article on August 29, 2015, revealing that one month earlier, on July 31, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh submitted […]
The “New” East Liberty
By Greg Godels The catchword is “gentrification”—the popular and relatively benign word for a process of displacement and neglect of poor and minority communities in […]
Housing Crisis Impacts Hill District Residents
By Carl Redwood In Pittsburgh there is an affordable housing crisis, which is most severely impacting families and households with very low and extremely low […]