This special edition zine explores Homewood and Larimer through reporting, photography, illustrations, data and history. We travel through the storied neighborhoods by hearing from longtime residents and neighborhood advocates, artists, entrepreneurs and community builders shaping what comes next.
Originally distributed in print throughout the three neighborhoods of Homewood and Larimer, we’re sharing it here so more neighbors and curious minds can access the journalism, reflections and visuals inside.
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Homewood & Larimer stories
How Homewood is sustaining itself after decades of disinvestment
In Homewood, business challenges, hidden history and a music tradition show what it takes for a community to endure.
In Larimer, developers turn their focus to community spaces
A new community hall will soon be under construction at the same time as a charter school sets out to expand its operations beyond learning.
Walnut Capital eyes new apartments for Bakery Square expansion
Pittsburgh’s Planning Commission heard developers’ plans to expand Bakery Square by constructing a 6-story residential building next to the tech hub.
AmeriCorps a year after the cuts: Organizations disrupted by cuts may yet emerge stronger
DOGE sought to starve the agency which funded volunteers on whom many community organizations relied. Pittsburgh-area groups improvised and diversified.
Calming the ripples of Pittsburgh’s segregated swimming history
Decades of violence and discrimination chased Black Americans out of swimming pools, reducing their comfort in the water even today. Local and national groups look to undo the damage.
With scores of new homes planned, Homewood sees citations, funding hurdles and eviction
Touted by the city in May, the redevelopment of nearly 100 units in Homewood proves no simple matter for nonprofit Rising Tide Partners.
Three maps that explain Pittsburgh’s homeownership geography
While homeownership remains the norm around Pittsburgh’s edges, renting is increasingly prevalent in most neighborhoods. In pockets including Homewood and Uptown, vacancy is stubbornly high.
AI-driven nuclear power revival among 5 takeaways from Pittsburgh summit
A global race with China. A nuclear morning. Google ogling Pennsylvania. AI summiteers found much to be excited about, but environmentalists see peril.
Pittsburgh developers aim for ‘American supremacy’ with push for defense contracts
On AI Avenue and Robotics Row, local leaders promote new innovation corridors despite concerns over housing loss and displacement.
Pittsburgh housing authority recruits AI to help with application backlogs
The authority’s board approved a $160,000 yearlong contract to assist a lean staff amid reservations about system bias.
The design of Pittsburgh’s future will be about trust, say two local architects
As it sheds its industrial past and embraces its tech-focused future, Pittsburgh today represents a “liminal space.” Climate migration and other coming changes could bring new changes to the city’s built environment.
A generation ‘constructed’ for tragedy: Older Black men hit hardest by overdose crisis
Mortality data assembled by the Baltimore Banner and the New York Times, and shared with regional newsrooms including PublicSource, shows a shocking prevalence of death from drugs among Black men born from 1951 to 1970 — and a second vulnerable group in some regions, including Pittsburgh.
Sometimes teens don’t imagine success — unless we meet them where they are and show them a path
Sent against my will from Jamaica to Massachusetts as a teen, I was in a state of shock until a professor guided me toward grad school. Now I’m working at CCAC, with many partners, to create moments like that for young people around Pittsburgh.
The Glimpse: After 9-year-old’s death, Homewood grieves and cyclists join neighborhood’s call for safety measures
The death of Courtney Carter while cycling in Homewood brought out neighborhood residents and bike advocates, who echoed longstanding calls for safer streets.
Bakery Square expansion wins first approval
Long back-burnered by the City Planning Commission, Walnut Capital’s plan to add housing and retail to its development straddling Larimer and East Liberty now goes to Pittsburgh City Council.
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