Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Infrastructure
Fig. 1. Post-collapse scene at the Fern Hollow Bridge, photograph by National Transportation Safety Board, January 29, 2022, via Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
It seems, according to the city of Pittsburgh, that “priority zero” urgent repairs that must be performed within a week are not, after all, so urgent.[1]
Julia Felton, “3 Pittsburgh spans in urgent need of work not addressed for months,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 12, 2023, https://triblive.com/local/3-pittsburgh-spans-in-urgent-need-of-work-not-addressed-for-months/
Housing
Fig. 1. The old Hazelwood library branch. It has been replaced with a new branch on Second Avenue. Photograph by author, May 1, 2020.
The city of Pittsburgh has had all the time in the world to do something about the blighted properties it owns. Not only has it done next to nothing,[2] it’s resisting efforts to do something.[3]
Michael Korsh, “Housing advocates wage legal battle to take over Pittsburgh’s blighted properties,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 12, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2023/02/12/housing-advocates-legal-battle-city-pittsburgh-blighted-abandoned-condemned-properties/stories/202302120086
- [1]Julia Felton, “3 Pittsburgh spans in urgent need of work not addressed for months,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 12, 2023, https://triblive.com/local/3-pittsburgh-spans-in-urgent-need-of-work-not-addressed-for-months/↩
- [2]Michael Korsh, “The city of Pittsburgh’s wasteland of unsafe, abandoned homes,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 3, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2023/02/03/pittsburgh-abandoned-homes-lots-city-owned-blight-violations-condemned/stories/202302050056↩
- [3]Michael Korsh, “Housing advocates wage legal battle to take over Pittsburgh’s blighted properties,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 12, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2023/02/12/housing-advocates-legal-battle-city-pittsburgh-blighted-abandoned-condemned-properties/stories/202302120086↩