What is Pittsburgh mayor Ed Gainey doing? Anything? Anything at all?

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Fig. 1. Most of the homeless encampments I’ve seen around Pittsburgh have been on the North Side. This one is downtown, right by a Parkway (Interstate 376) onramp. Photograph by author, May 22, 2023.

Between the city of Pittsburgh[1] and effectively anonymous property ownership,[2] there’s an awful lot of blight that isn’t being remedied. While the out-of-state ownership may require state action,[3] the failure even to demolish city-owned uninhabitable properties is yet another Ed Gainey failure.[4]

This accompanies failures on homelessness and infrastructure. And the question keeps coming up: What is Gainey doing?

I see nothing. I hear nothing. There is no explanation whatsoever, just a deafening silence. I conclude, therefore, that Gainey is doing nothing.

Michael Korsh, “Homes in the shadows: Out-of-state LLCs often conceal ownership of Allegheny County’s dangerous and decaying homes,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 2, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2023/07/02/allegheny-county-pittsburgh-decaying-homes-llc-owners/stories/202307020059

  1. [1]Michael Korsh, “The city of Pittsburgh’s wasteland of unsafe, abandoned homes,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 5, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2023/02/03/pittsburgh-abandoned-homes-lots-city-owned-blight-violations-condemned/stories/202302050056↩
  2. [2]Michael Korsh, “Homes in the shadows: Out-of-state LLCs often conceal ownership of Allegheny County’s dangerous and decaying homes,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 2, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2023/07/02/allegheny-county-pittsburgh-decaying-homes-llc-owners/stories/202307020059↩
  3. [3]Michael Korsh, “Homes in the shadows: Out-of-state LLCs often conceal ownership of Allegheny County’s dangerous and decaying homes,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 2, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2023/07/02/allegheny-county-pittsburgh-decaying-homes-llc-owners/stories/202307020059↩
  4. [4]Michael Korsh, “The city of Pittsburgh’s wasteland of unsafe, abandoned homes,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 5, 2023, https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2023/02/03/pittsburgh-abandoned-homes-lots-city-owned-blight-violations-condemned/stories/202302050056↩

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