Choice Neighborhoods Grant Program
The Choice Neighborhood is a federally funded program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) that supports locally driven strategies to address struggling neighborhoods with distressed public or HUD-assisted housing through a comprehensive approach to neighborhood transformation. In 2016, HUD awarded the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) a $500,000 planning grant for the redevelopment of […]
Allegheny County Executive Candidate Interviews
Primary Elections in Allegheny County are underway and the County is electing new leadership for the first time in over a decade. Marimba Milliones, President and CEO of the Hill CDC, sat down with four of the six candidates vying for the position of County Executive to hear their perspectives on issues facing the Hill District and communities like it […]
Allegheny County Whole-Home Repairs Program
The Whole Home Repairs program is administered by Action Housing. For further information, contact ACTION-Housing at (412) 248-0021 or e-mail wholehomerepairs@actionhousing.org Allegheny County Whole-Home Repairs Program Need help to afford home repairs? Apply for funding from the Whole-Home Repairs Program Funding is available to fix severe issues like damage to your home’s roof, windows, and foundation. You can also get […]
Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Task Force
In 2017, the Hill CDC was invited and participated on the Steering Committee along with the Race and Ethnicity Committee of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Task Force. The goal of the AFFH Task Force is to help assess current impediments to fair housing choice and develop policy recommendations that affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH) for the upcoming Assessment […]
Community Land Trust
The Hill CDC began researching and analyzing the concept of the Community Land Trusts (CLT) in February 2014, primarily as a response to the proposed land bank legislation. Affordable housing was already a priority of the Greater Hill District community, but with the introduction of land bank legislation, the Hill CDC recognized the urgency of exploring concepts and practices that […]
