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Mayor-elect Ed Gainey announced who will be on his transition team as he prepares for office in January.

AP The Heinz Endowments and Carnegie Mellon University announced a $30 million initiative Wednesday to study solutions for socio-economic inequities in the greater Pittsburgh region. The initiative will fund the launch of the Center for Shared Prosperity and establish an endowment to support the center’s work. CMU will collaborate with working groups made up of community partners on research in areas like housing, education, transportation, health care, technology fluency, and access to capit...

Carnegie Mellon, Heinz Endowments Launch Initiative to Promote Economic Empowerment, Address Inequities in Pittsburgh Region $30M Grant for Center for Shared Prosperity to Support New Model for Collaboration Between Community Members and University News provided by Share this article Share this article PITTSBURGH, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Carnegie Mellon University and The Heinz Endowments today announced a sweeping initiative to leverage the universitys internationally recognized streng...

Pittsburgh Leaders And US Water Alliance Release Water Equity Roadmap Report outlines strategies for equitable water management Today, the US Water Alliance and Pittsburgh leaders representing Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority, community-based organizations, and academia released An Equitable Water Future Pittsburgh. This report outlines strategies to advance five high-priority water equity priorities in Pittsburgh. The report is available online here. An Equitable Water Future: Pittsburgh w...

Katie Blackley / 90.5 WESA The advisory board of Pittsburgh’s Housing Opportunity Fund, or HOF, will soon have to be more selective about what projects they support, and when they do, they want to be sure those investments do the most good. Pittsburgh City Council approved the Housing Opportunity Fund in 2017, but it took a while to fund it, so the HOF has operated in an environment of relative abundance: in each calendar year it’s had roughly two years of funding to get out the door. ...

Margaret J. Krauss / 90.5 WESA The Pittsburgh Land Bank, created in 2014, has yet to buy, clear, and sell a single piece of property. At its January meeting the land banks board is expected to vote on whether to make it an “affiliate entity” of the Urban Redevelopment Authority. While the PLB has worked with the URA since its inception under a memorandum of agreement, proponents say officially enmeshing with the agency would allow the land bank to gain better access to resources, such...