Lucas Dufalla, Author at Pittsburgh's Public Source

Conservatorship, sheriff’s sales, a county property recovery program — none are nimble or versatile enough to dent the abandoned property problems of places like Wilkinsburg.

Lucas Dufalla

Many tools, little impact: Abandoned property programs struggle to address vacancy problem, but change may be coming

Updated: Pittsburgh City Council approves land bank agreement, hoping for more property reuse

On the Hill: ‘Take it down, just let me have one brick.’

Replacement housing for Bedford Dwellings gets city’s OK

From implosion’s dust, competing visions for Allegheny Valley’s future emerging

Metal and paint warehouses may join Strip’s housing surge

Advocates for Pittsburgh’s unhoused and business leaders met and agreed on one thing: Bathrooms

In the Allegheny Valley, after a century of coal power, the towers have toppled

AGH master plan could bring construction of new single-patient room structure

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