Garfield groups confront market-rate development push with affordable housing projects

Rick Swartz believes the 25 affordable houses his group is building in Garfield will help transform a neighborhood that illustrates how Pittsburgh is tackling development, blight and housing-market trends. The Bloomfield-Garfield Corp. executive director walked through the wooden-beamed skeleton of a home under construction at 234 N. Aiken Ave., pausing

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