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More than 30 people joined Mayor Luke Ravenstahl on an hourlong code enforcement loop through the streets of California-Kirkbride yesterday, where amid dilapidated buildings and weedy vacant lots the mayor said, “There is a lot of hope.”
Read more in today’s Post-Gazette.
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Posted by Andrew Macurak in : Members, News ,
Ms. Doven said the mayor ‘recognizes that building new houses in a neighborhood does not mean revitalization. For neighborhoods such as Allentown, we have a serious problem with vacant structures and lots. Folding greening into the public safety process is a key part of the puzzle.’”
Allentown neighbors have been working with the city and police [...]
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An eight-month-old fund that has already loaned $1.6 million to nonprofit groups that boost urban areas will dramatically ramp up its lending, officials said yesterday.
That’s because PNC Financial Services Group has loaned $5 million to the Urban Economic Loan Fund, part of Landmarks Community Capital Corp. Landmarks plans to quickly turn that money into capital [...]
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PCRG member OPDC mentioned in the news as a partner in housing revitalization in Central and South Oakland: City Pilots Building Code Violation Sweeps in Oakland
PCRG Executive Director Steve Shivak quoted in the Trib: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac get infusion of cash
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