University of Pittsburgh COPC in the News

University of Pittsburgh COPC in the News

Neighborhood agencies challenge city to sell school buildings wisely: Jim Richter, executive director of the Hazelwood Initiative, was among those who said the board should consider the impact on a neighborhood when selling a building. Burgwin School in Hazelwood is one of 22 schools slated to close at the end of the school year, and its building is one of 27 the district may put up for sale.

Hazelwood residents ask district to keep Burgwin School open: Jim Richter, executive director of Hazelwood Initiative, said his group has been planning to build six houses and market them to people outside of the neighborhood. It also plans to rehabilitate other homes and bring in local graduate students to study the neighborhood's housing needs.

University-community partnerships can revitalize neighborhoods: Let's pronounce the town-and-gown era over in the Pittsburgh region. It's time for local leaders to become champions of the overarching positive relations for community revitalization that are occurring between institutions of higher education and communities.

Database a new tool for city: CIS can show trouble spots, as well as neighborhood pluses

Project to centralize local information: This will include U.S. Census data that students and staff at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Social and Urban Research are including. "We make census data available to community and neighborhood groups, and we were interested in a neighborhood information system," said Sabina Deitrick, the center's director.

Putting neighborhoods on the map: Organizations collaborate on developing a Neighborhood Information System

GSPIA alumnae Kelly Hoffman (MPA ’02) and Stephanie Schoenberg (MPA ’02) were featured in CDWSP Central (Vol. 3, no.2), a publication of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of University Partnership. Kelly and Stephanie were Community Development Work Study Fellows at GSPIA and completed internship experiences with our COPC. Today, Kelly is the Real Estate Program Manager at COPC partner Oakland Planning and Development Organization and Stephanie is Development Director at the Ronald McDonald House in Pittsburgh.