Pittsburgh’s Land Bank was created in 2014 to try to help the city address its large number of blighted properties and return them to the housing market, but efforts have largely failed. Over the first eight years of the Pittsburgh Land Bank’s existence, the bank had only acquired two properties.
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On today’s episode of The Confluence: a recent analysis found 456 books banned in Pennsylvania between July 2021 and March 2022, a majority of them in the Central York School District; Diamonte Walker will be the first CEO of Scholar House Pittsburgh, which looks to provide single mothers with affordable housing and support near higher education; and Pittsburgh native Cole Arthur Riley discusses her new book, “This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation and the Stories That Make Us.”
After years of facilitating community-focused economic development with the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Diamonte Walker is shifting her focus to helping single mothers get a college degree. She’s the first CEO of Pittsburgh Scholar House, whose goal is to build an affordable multi-family housing development near a university campus to help retain students.