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🏘️Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:“The city’s Planning Commission has recommended a bill that would make inclusionary z...
06/09/2026

🏘️Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:

“The city’s Planning Commission has recommended a bill that would make inclusionary zoning — a policy requiring developers to include a certain percentage of affordable apartments in large new developments — not mandatory for developers in most Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

The Planning Commission’s nine members recommended the change Tuesday; the bill now returns to Pittsburgh City Council. This latest version of the legislation includes voluntary incentives for developers to add affordable units, such as allowing additional height or density in new buildings.

The units will only have to be affordable for 20 years, rather than the 35 years suggested by city planning staff, a point of significant discussion in the meeting.

Several speakers Tuesday afternoon said 20 years was far too short a term.

‘Increasingly, the national best practice has been to try to move toward permanent affordability tenures,’ said Dave Breingan, co-director of neighborhood organization Lawrenceville Together, who addressed commission members. ‘Thirty-five years is already watered down.’”

💭Want more stories like this? Check out our Weekend Round Up! https://mailchi.mp/hilldistrict/weekendroundup-6-6-2026
Read Full Article: https://www.wesa.fm/development-transportation/2026-06-03/pittsburgh-planning-commission-vountary-inclusionary-zoning

📚 One week away! Join us for the final Drop Everything and Read gathering of the season.In a world full of notifications...
06/09/2026

📚 One week away! Join us for the final Drop Everything and Read gathering of the season.

In a world full of notifications, deadlines, and distractions, take a few hours to slow down, unplug, and enjoy the simple act of reading alongside fellow book lovers. Bring your favorite book, a lawn chair or cozy blanket, and settle in for a quiet community reading experience.

📅 Tuesday, June 16
⏰ 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Nafasi On Centre, 2145 Centre Avenue

This is your last chance to participate in this spring series—don't miss it!

🔗 Register: nafasioncentre.org/register

🔑 Your homeownership journey starts here!Learn the essentials of homeownership, including mortgages, budgeting, inspecti...
06/08/2026

🔑 Your homeownership journey starts here!

Learn the essentials of homeownership, including mortgages, budgeting, inspections, insurance, and more. Participants will also have access to one-on-one counseling focused on budgeting, credit education, and improving credit scores.

📅 Saturday, June 13
⏰ 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

This is the final reminder before the workshop, so don't miss your opportunity to gain valuable information and resources to help you on your path to homeownership.

🔗 Register today: hilldistrict.org/register

📣 Catch up on the latest news from the Hill District and beyond with the Weekend Roundup!🏛️ New Granada Building receive...
06/08/2026

📣 Catch up on the latest news from the Hill District and beyond with the Weekend Roundup!

🏛️ New Granada Building receives $1M state grant
📢 Development Review Panel shares communication updates
🏘️ Planning Commission’s “Inclusionary zoning” is not inclusionary at all
🤝🏾 Hill CDC welcomes Community Development Fellow Ashante Josey
⚖️ Civil rights agency scales back anti-discrimination tools
🗳️ Supreme Court limits options for protecting minority voting rights
⏰ Last day to submit RFP's is June 9th

📬 Read the latest edition and stay connected to what's happening in the Hill. Click here: https://mailchi.mp/hilldistrict/weekendroundup-6-6-2026
👩🏾‍💻Sign up for the Hill District Weekend Roundup here: https://www.hilldistrict.org/signup/

🌿 Join us for the final Sat Down Somewhere gathering at Nafasi on Centre!Over the past few months, this series has creat...
06/04/2026

🌿 Join us for the final Sat Down Somewhere gathering at Nafasi on Centre!

Over the past few months, this series has created space for Black women to pause, reflect, connect, and prioritize their well-being. As we close out the season, we invite you to join us for one final evening of yoga, meditation, and self-care centered on rest, renewal, and community.

✨ Space is limited, so be sure to reserve your spot soon.

📅 Tuesday, June 23
⏰ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Avenue

🎟️Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sat-down-somewhere-tickets-1986332515023?aff=oddtdtcreator

📣 Location Update for Kuumba Korner!Kuumba Korner is still happening this Saturday, June 6 from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, but ...
06/04/2026

📣 Location Update for Kuumba Korner!

Kuumba Korner is still happening this Saturday, June 6 from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM, but the event has been moved to a new location.

📍 New Granada Apartments
2033 Centre Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
(Just one block down the street from the original location.)

If you haven't registered yet, there's still time to sign up!
🎟️Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kuumba-korner-tickets-1984907387428?aff=oddtdtcreator

👩🏾‍🏫 Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:“Seventy-one years ago, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of E...
06/04/2026

👩🏾‍🏫 Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:

“Seventy-one years ago, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. For generations of Black families, Brown represented more than a legal decision. It represented aspiration, validation, and possibility. It affirmed a simple but transformative principle: Black children deserved access to the full promise of American education. That promise remains unfinished.”

In Pittsburgh, the recent decision by Pittsburgh Public Schools to move forward with the closure and consolidation of nine schools raises difficult questions about educational access, community stability, and equity. District leaders cite enrollment trends and financial challenges, but school closures often carry the greatest consequences for Black students and historically underserved communities. The debate surrounding these closures reflects many of the same concerns that have shaped educational equity discussions for generations: who has access to well-resourced schools, whose communities receive investment, and which students bear the burden of difficult policy decisions. More than seven decades after Brown, those questions remain unresolved in communities across the country, including our own.

💭Want more stories like this? Check out our Weekend Round Up! https://mailchi.mp/hilldistrict/weekendroundup-5-30-2026
Read Full Article: https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2026/05/26/julianne-malveaux/

📚 One last DEAR before the season wraps up!Join us for the final DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) community reading exper...
06/03/2026

📚 One last DEAR before the season wraps up!

Join us for the final DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) community reading experience at Nafasi on Centre. In a world full of distractions, take a few hours to slow down, unplug, and enjoy the simple joy of reading alongside fellow community members.

Bring your favorite book, a lawn chair or blanket, and settle in for an afternoon dedicated to imagination, reflection, and community.

📅 Tuesday, June 16
⏰ 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Nafasi on Centre, 2145 Centre Ave.

Whether you've attended before or are joining us for the first time, we'd love to see you for this final gathering.

🔗 Register today: nafasioncentre.org/register

👩🏾‍🎨Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:“Striking examples include Annie Campbell’s “Pittsburgh Aglow,” a circa-1915 pastel...
06/03/2026

👩🏾‍🎨Weekly Weekend Roundup Spotlight:

“Striking examples include Annie Campbell’s “Pittsburgh Aglow,” a circa-1915 pastel on paper that foregrounds the South Side Slopes’ St. Michael’s Church against a nighttime backdrop of the neighborhood dominated by J&L Steel. Colin Campbell Cooper’s circa-1905 oil painting “Pittsburgh, PA” takes a view from Mount Washington looking across the Mon and toward the Bluff, limning a dirty and dynamic town choked by smoke, crossed by rail lines and dotted by billboards.

And because Pittsburgh has long mythologized its signature industries, here’s a 1951 plaster cast of famed sculptor Frank Vittor’s proposal for the planned Point State Park Fountain: a 100-foot-tall metal sculpture topped by the Paul Bunyanesque character Joe Magarac.

But the exhibit is hardly all valorization. It also includes “Union Station Riot,” an 1877 oil painting contemporaneous with the railroad strike it depicts, and which local artist Martin B. Leisser resourcefully sketched from high in the steeple of St. Philomena’s Church in the Strip District. Below, dozens of tiny figures scramble while tongues of flame dot the smoke engulfing half of this dire nighttime scene.

Virginia Cuthbert’s 1937 oil “Slum Clearance on Ruch’s Hill” suggests that well before the so-called Pittsburgh Renaissance, powerful people were already upending life in the Hill District: In a blasted, treeless landscape, the in-progress demolition by white workmen (witnessed by a Black woman and children) leaves behind half-built walls missing their houses, and stairwells that drop off into thin air, all creating an almost surreal air.”

💭Want more stories like this? Check out our Weekend Round Up: https://ow.ly/lpno50Z6FSA
📰Read the full article here: https://ow.ly/QOLo50Z6FSC

‼️Happening NOWThe conversation about Inclusionary Zoning cannot be divorced from history. For decades, zoning and land ...
06/02/2026

‼️Happening NOW

The conversation about Inclusionary Zoning cannot be divorced from history. For decades, zoning and land use policies across the United States were used to determine who belonged, who benefited, and who was left behind. Exclusionary Zoning became one of the most effective tools for concentrating wealth and opportunity in some communities while denying it to others.

Inclusionary Zoning should be viewed as a justice-based response to that history. Its purpose is not simply to produce housing units. Its purpose is to ensure that access to thriving neighborhoods, public investment, economic opportunity, and community stability is not reserved only for those with the highest incomes or a particular racial group. If Exclusionary Zoning represented the codification of inequity, Inclusionary Zoning should represent the intentional pursuit of equity.

At today's City Planning Commission meeting, members will vote on a proposal to make Inclusionary Zoning voluntary. The remedies we pursue to rebuild our communities more equitably should never be optional.

If the City Planning Commission wishes to create *incentives* for developers to produce affordable housing, fine. Incentives have their place. But let us not confuse an incentive-based approach with Inclusionary Zoning.

Pittsburgh deserves bold policies that expand access to opportunity and help address the structural inequities created by decades of public policy. If Exclusionary Zoning was the antithesis of justice, Inclusionary Zoning should be the remedy.

Join or listen to the hearing today and stay engaged. This proposal is expected to advance to Pittsburgh City Council and ultimately the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh for consideration and approval/denial.

Stay tuned.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1KBJfJxP8A

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88275113502

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2015/2017 Centre Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA
15219

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

(412) 765-1820

Website

http://linktr.ee/hillcdc

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