In Search of Answers on Gentrification [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 11/8/164:00 AM

Back in the 1980s, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was gripped in an economic crisis as it suffered the effects of de-industrialization: Its unemployment rate was triple that of Detroit’s today. “We basically died,” Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said on a recent press call. But, in a much-celebrated comeback story, the city came back to life. “In 30 years Pittsburgh changed its economy. It built out an entire new city of eds and meds, technology, finance and energy. Now we’re seeing a new Pittsburgh emerge.”

[For more of this story, written by Brentin Mock, go to http://www.citylab.com/housing...ntrification/506267/]

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