Social Impact Design | Call for Projects

by Chelsea Contino | Sep 6, 2024 | Advance Equity, Build Capacity, Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods

Neighborhood Allies, through the Social Impact Design (SID) program, is seeking proposals from community organizations, local leaders, artists, designers, and small businesses in Pittsburgh’s underserved neighborhoods. We want to work together on projects that...

From Vision to Action: Creating a Creative Analytic Play Space in the Hilltop

by talia piazza | Sep 6, 2024 | Advance Equity, Announcements, Build Capacity, Front Page, Hilltop, Revitalize Neighborhoods

Last summer, our Social Impact Design team partnered with The Brashear Association, Inc. and South Pittsburgh residents to co-design a Creative Analytic Play Space (CAPS) to be built in a vacant lot across from the Brashear CARES Center.   Our team worked...

Kincaid Street Garden Project

by Chelsea Contino | Aug 30, 2024 | Build Capacity, Front Page, Revitalize Neighborhoods

Between January and August of 2024, Neighborhood Allies collaborated with the Kincaid Street Community Garden to design a new community space that could bring life to the garden’s vacant southern lot. The goals of the project included designing a space that...

Media Coverage | Ribbon cutting held for affordable housing in Homewood

by Chelsea Contino | Jul 30, 2024 | Advance Equity, Front Page, Homewood, Media Coverage, Revitalize Neighborhoods

By Liz Kilmer | WPXI Pittsburgh | Read the full story Image by Neighborhood Allies Mayor Ed Gainey was among the community leaders who attended a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate affordable housing units on Friday. Four three-bedroom apartments were unveiled on...

Media Coverage | Affordable housing project in Homewood could ignite revitalization in neighborhood

by talia piazza | Jul 15, 2024 | Community News, Homewood, Media Coverage, Revitalize Neighborhoods

By: Jessica Guay | KDKA News | July 12, 2024 | Watch the interview PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A new affordable housing project is on its way to one of Pittsburgh’s most distressed neighborhoods. Buildings that have been empty eyesores for years in the city’s...

Media Coverage | An $800,000 investment is spurring the redevelopment of up to 69 affordable housing units in Homewood

by talia piazza | Jul 15, 2024 | Community News, Front Page, Homewood, Media Coverage, Revitalize Neighborhoods

By: Oliver Morrison | WESA 90.5 | July 12, 2024 | Read the full article   Katie Blackley | 90.5 WESA An $800,000 investment by the nonprofit Neighborhood Allies is providing funding for a nonprofit developer to purchase 69 units for renovation into affordable...