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Susheela Nemani-Stanger takes on thorny problems with a mostly inexperienced team at the Urban Redevelopment Authority.

Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority has named Susheela Nemani-Stanger as its executive director. She will be the first woman to take the role. Nemani-Stanger assumed the role of acting executive director after Greg Flisram resigned from the post at the end of last year. “I’m proud to say that I’ve watched

Susheela Nemani-Stranger will take over as the Authority’s executive director. If approved, she will be the first woman and the first person of Indian descent to lead the economic development agency.

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When She Thrives is helping six Pittsburgh women become published authors with a new anthology, and honoring five others at annual event.

Pittsburgh’s Land Bank was created in 2014 to try to help the city address its large number of blighted properties and return them to the housing market, but efforts have largely failed. Over the first eight years of the Pittsburgh Land Bank’s existence, the bank had only acquired two properties.

On today’s episode of The Confluence: a recent analysis found 456 books banned in Pennsylvania between July 2021 and March 2022, a majority of them in the Central York School District; Diamonte Walker will be the first CEO of Scholar House Pittsburgh, which looks to provide single mothers with affordable housing and support near higher education; and Pittsburgh native Cole Arthur Riley discusses her new book, “This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation and the Stories That Make Us.”

After years of facilitating community-focused economic development with the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Diamonte Walker is shifting her focus to helping single mothers get a college degree. She’s the first CEO of Pittsburgh Scholar House, whose goal is to build an affordable multi-family housing development near a university campus to help retain students.

The Pittsburgh Scholar House — a new nonprofit that aims to increase support for single-parent families in pursuit of higher education — announced Thursday that it has appointed Diamonte Walker as its inaugural CEO. Walker previously served as the deputy executive director for Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority. In her new