Though moves to address the lagging development at the Hazelwood ALMANO brownfield were of primary concern during the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh’s July board meeting, it also authorized low-income housing and property development in the East End and the Hill District.
Piggybacking on the construction of the new senior housing facility and for-sale housing on Finance Street built by Rev. Samuel Ware’s Building United, the board approved up to $700,000 in loans for Susquehanna Homes Housing LP to build 36 rental homes along Susquehanna, Tioga, and Dunfermline Streets and Panke Avenue in Homewood.
The project was awarded $11 million in Low-Income Housing Tax Credits last year, and the developers requested the authority sell it 44 properties for the project. After staff review—and the realization by the developers that 10 of the properties were not needed—the board approved the sale of 34 properties for $61,000.
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