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Rrustrations are common in Park Hill, a 167-townhouse community near Penn Hills. Around one in five of the townhouses are vacant, and no one has addressed more than a handful of the collapsing roofs, let alone the broken windows, abandoned cars and missing front doors. Gentrification is not the risk here, said Kendall Pelling, executive director of Rising Tide Partners, a year-old nonprofit dedicated to stopping displacement. I would say the risk here is ‘rotrification,’ a term he coined to describe how unchecked decay spurs abandonment. Read on: https://www.publicsource.org/east-hills-consensus-pittsbur/

This From the Source podcast episode features a conversation with Pittsburgh activist Dena Stanley on the emotional and mental labor it takes to defend equity and the protection of human rights for the Black and trans community.

Blight, conservatorship changes, demolition funding get lawmakers’ ears.

From the vault: A conversation with Marijke Hecht about urban ecology and racism and what multi-species design justice might look like in Pittsburgh. LISTEN to "From The Source."

Whats the working relationship of your dreams? Anthony Mock, owner of a Monroeville-based jewelry business, and employee Terri Hogan-Williams talk about the importance of relationships at work following the pandemic.