JoAnne Klimovich Harrop | Tribune-Review
The former Squirrel Hill Theater is in the process of being demolished on May 11 to make room for Flats on Forward, affordable housing .
JoAnne Klimovich Harrop | Tribune-Review
The former Squirrel Hill Theater is in the process of being demolished on May 11 to make room for Flats on Forward, affordable housing .
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A piece of history crumbled on Forward Avenue on Tuesday, as a bulldozer and other equipment began the demolition of the Squirrel Hill Theater.
The movie theater, part of the neighborhood for 74 years, closed in 2010.
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By most counts Pittsburgh is short some 20,000 units of affordable housing … but there’s not a lot of money to go around. 90.5 WESA’s Margaret J. Krauss reports even standout projects can run the risk of failure.
By most counts Pittsburgh is short some 20,000 units of affordable housing, and the number continues to grow. Meeting the need, while always a challenge, seems even more daunting against the backdrop of vast housing insecurity revealed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The city’s Housing Opportunity Fund, or HOF, is often a final stop for affordable housing projects; through its Rental Gap Program it can make the kind of last-piece-of-the-puzzle loans nonprofit developers need to make their numbers work. Earlier this month, the fund’s advisory board debated such a situation at Flats on Forward, at the corner of Forward and Murray Avenues.