Since 2011, the Pittsburgh housing authority has spent $58 million from its Section 8 housing voucher program on the construction of mixed-income housing developments. Those developments — such as Garfield Commons, Skyline Terrace in the Hill District and Cornerstone Village in Larimer — include market-rate and affordable units and are part of the authority’s long-term […]
Tom Lisi
Tom Lisi is the Developing Pittsburgh reporter at PublicSource. His beat focuses on issues related to economic development, housing and city planning. Previously, Tom worked as a city and special projects reporter at the Herald & Review in Decatur, Illinois, where his investigations uncovered a design flaw in one of the city's largest-ever public works projects and the termination of a village police chief under dubious circumstances. Other past work exposed a buried state budget measure that diverted $300 million from Illinois' transportation budget and a data analysis of housing market disparities between city and county school districts. He is a native New Yorker who is very impressed by Pittsburgh pizza.
