SOCIAL JUSTICE
Foster Tarver served 49 years as a murder accomplice. Should Pittsburgh’s housing authority deny him housing forever?
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Should a murder conviction disqualify a person from public housing?
PUBLIC SAFETY
Could Pittsburgh’s proposed gun control bills disproportionately impact black residents?
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“Any ordinance like this… always lands on the backs of young African-Americans,” Rev. De Neice Welch said broadly about gun control laws. “Always.”
DEVELOPING PITTSBURGH
How the inaugural $10 million in Pittsburgh’s Housing Opportunity Fund will be spent
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As vice chair of the the Urban Redevelopment Authority [URA] Board of Directors, State Rep. Ed Gainey is hopeful a new program managed by the authority will get some Pittsburghers off the treadmill of renting and into affordable housing they themselves own.
EDUCATION
In charter school bid, Imani Christian Academy looks to become a publicly funded, secular school
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Imani’s charter application appears to follow a trend by other religious schools nationally in recent years. After struggling financially to stay afloat, some have chosen to transform into charter schools to create a steady revenue flow, even though it requires giving up their religious mission.
MONEY & POLITICS
During five years in office, has Mayor Peduto fulfilled his pledges to Pittsburgh?
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Five years into being mayor, has Pittsburgh seen results from Mayor Bill Peduto’s ideas?
ENVIRONMENT
Residents, officials push for answers from U.S. Steel and Allegheny County about response to Clairton Coke Works fire
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Local residents and elected officials held a press conference Wednesday to sharply criticize U.S. Steel and Allegheny County for their responses to a Christmas Eve fire at the Clairton Coke Works.
DEVELOPING PITTSBURGH
‘Milking’: How some absentee property owners contribute to blight in the Pittsburgh region
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Urban design expert Alan Mallach believes owner Prasad Margabandhu was trying to “milk” the failed property by attempting to eke out rent revenue while spending as little as possible on repairs or taxes.
SOCIAL JUSTICE
How PERSAD Center is dealing with sudden leadership changes and concerns about a no-show policy for its LGBTQ patients
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Under the nonprofit’s “no-show” attendance policy, clients get discharged from services if they miss three appointments in six months. This policy is not new, but PERSAD only began reviewing the policy with patients and asking them to sign it in the fall. And concern over this policy is not the only upheaval occurring at PERSAD.
DEVELOPING PITTSBURGH
Six Pittsburghers share how they’re hoping to change the future of Pittsburgh’s public transit in 2019
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Public transportation is a critical component of the discussions on economic development, affordable housing, food access, the environment and health care. Here are six people thinking about those very intersections and working to design policy that will be equitable for everyone.
MONEY & POLITICS
City of Pittsburgh faces three legal cases stemming from attempt to cut six longtime employees from the 2018 budget
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Six longtime, mid-level employees of the City of Pittsburgh were informed their positions were set to be eliminated from the 2018 budget. According to legal documents and sources, the employees’ respective supervisors called them in for meetings in September 2017 to tell them they wouldn’t have jobs in the new year and asked them to not tell anyone.
