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Tenant Cities

More Pittsburgh households now rent than own their homes, and landlords control a growing share of the housing market countywide. COVID-19 is testing the health of this market, bringing eviction curbs, rent relief and a revived tenants’ rights movement. PublicSource and WESA are exploring these changes and examining the governmental and civic responses to the emergence of Tenant Cities.

Tenant Cities
Organizers Alex Baker, left, and Andre Silverman hold a United Neighborhood Defense Fund banner against a condemned building. (Photo by Jay Manning/PublicSource)

Tenant Cities: Renter power movement gains strength amid COVID stresses

By Rich Lord | March 1, 2021
Tenant Cities
An application for rental relief, submitted by DaJuan Davis of Penn Hills and his landlord in July, was rejected. (Photo by Jay Manning/PublicSource)

Tenant Cities: Going it alone in Allegheny County

By By Rich Lord and Kate Giammarise | February 1, 2021

In Allegheny County, and surrounding counties, only a fraction of applicants received rent relief.

Tenant Cities
Aubrey Halliburton, a Polish Hill-based landlord with two tenants, holds forth keys. She helped both apply for rent relief after they lost their jobs. One got relief, the other didn't — a result consistent with statewide and Allegheny County results from a program designed to help both tenants and landlords to weather the pandemic economy. (Photo by Jay Manning/PublicSource)

Tenant Cities: Rent relief didn’t get to those who needed it. Will Pennsylvania get it right the second time?

By By Rich Lord, Kate Giammarise, Jay Manning and Margaret J. Krauss | February 1, 2021

The first in a joint WESA and PublicSource series on the Pittsburgh area’s growing, and troubled, landlord/tenant economy

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