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here it is if you haven’t read it

inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...
My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner
A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana.
inthesetimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
msgiggles.bsky.social
ACDC is so unserious and *many* members would rather have Trumpers or do-nothing Dems than people who stand for the core values that the Democratic Party is supposedly based on.
March 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Against the notion that we are “rushing” into IZ, the study reiterates the “15 years of local studies, financial modeling, expert and community input, and adjustments, all informed by the best national practices from empirical studies” that led to IZ in Lawrenceville:
Here in Pittsburgh, local practitioners have been studying and modeling IZ for our region since at least 2011, when the Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania formed a working group on the subject called the Southwest Pennsylvania Building Inclusive Communities Working Group. In July 2014, the Falk Foundation provided a grant to the Housing Alliance’s working group to produce further research on IZ, which resulted in a report compiled by attorney Bob Damewood of Regional Housing Legal Services (RHLS), titled “Building Inclusive Communities: A Review of Local Conditions, Legal Authority and Best Practices for Pittsburgh.” (Damewood & Regional Housing Legal Services, 2015). In the 55-page report, RHLS looked at housing market trends in Allegheny County, reviewed the literature on IZ programs, and researched the statutory authority for Pittsburgh to enact IZ legislation and withstand constitutional challenges. It concluded that Pittsburgh’s housing market was strong enough to support an IZ policy, that the City has the legal authority to enact IZ and provided a number of recommendations about policy design based on national best practices. (This report was updated in January 2022 with fresh analysis.) (Davenport, 2022) In 2015, Councilman Lavelle introduced legislation to establish the City’s first Affordable Housing Task Force. The Task Force comprised 30 leaders representing public agencies, elected officials, housing experts, for-profit and nonprofit developers, labor, financial institutions, and community development corporations. Shortly after its creation, affordable housing in Pittsburgh suddenly became an even larger topic of public attention in the summer of 2015, when the owner of the Penn Plaza Apartments in East Liberty gave the 200 residents there a notice to vacate within 90 days.
January 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM