KEEP PITTSBURGH HOME
Mayor Ed Gainey Launches Data Transparency Tool Showing Progress on Delivering 1,600 units of Affordable Housing for Pittsburghers
Pittsburgh, PA – Today, Mayor Ed Gainey unveiled a digital tool that the public can use to track the CIty of Pittsburgh’s substantial progress in developing and preserving affordable housing over the past three years. Launched midway through National Fair Housing Month, this tool is the latest step in the administration’s efforts to build a city where everyone belongs by prioritizing local investments and policies that have delivered more affordable housing units than any other in over 20 years.
The Pittsburgh Affordable Housing Development Project Explorer is designed to provide the public with greater transparency around this achievement. The Project Explorer features interactive maps, charts, and tables through which Pittsburghers can learn more about the over 1,600 new and preserved affordable units completed, under construction, or in process, and over 1,200 additional units in the active pipeline. This tool will allow everyone to continue to monitor our progress as part of the City’s broader Keep Pittsburgh Home agenda.
Our Progress on Affordable Housing at a Glance
The Project Explorer tool highlights progress made in delivering affordable housing developments between 2022 and 2024:
- Over 1,600 affordable units completed, under construction, or in process, in projects that also include an additional 400+ market-rate units
- 858 new and 747 preserved affordable housing units
- 1,547 rental and 58 for-sale units
- Over 1,200 additional affordable units in the project pipeline
“This announcement isn’t just about dots on a map. The truth is in the data before you. This is about making sure we can Keep Pittsburgh Home for the essential workers that make our city run or the single mom with two kids that lives down the street,” said Mayor Gainey. “And the results we shared today demonstrate real progress towards serving those neighbors and solving our affordable housing crisis.”
When Mayor Gainey stepped into office, he pledged to make Pittsburgh a city where everyone belongs and affordability is not a luxury. The release of the Pittsburgh Affordable Housing Development Project Explorer clearly illustrates to the public the substantial progress made over the past three years in protecting and expanding affordable housing across the city.
The tracker shows the results of unprecedented levels of local investment in affordable housing by the Gainey Administration, such as over $37 million in ARPA funding and early investments from the historic $30 million affordable housing bond. Additional accomplishments that are not included in the tracker but that have helped us tackle the affordable housing crisis in our city include: affordable developments that closed on financing before 2022, recipients of residential consumer loan and grant programs (such as down payment assistance, homeowner assistance, or eviction prevention), our OwnPGH program (160 new homeowners, where over 90% are minority- or women-headed households), moving over 150 properties through the Pittsburgh Land Bank.
“But we can’t stop here. We have to keep the momentum flowing on all these initiatives and look to new solutions,” said Mayor Gainey. “It’s why we continue to advance changes to the City’s zoning code to maximize homes that can be built in every single neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Through these actions and our entire Keep Pittsburgh Home plan, we will continue to deliver the affordable housing that all Pittsburghers need.”
Here's the link for the Pittsburgh Affordable Housing Development Project Explorer
Here's the Affordable Housing Factsheet
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About Keep Pittsburgh Home
Keep Pittsburgh Home is a citywide initiative that builds on Mayor Gainey’s strong record of housing progress over the past four years while launching a bold new vision to protect renters, support homeowners, and strengthen public housing. By expanding successful initiatives, strengthening tools like the Pittsburgh Land Bank, advancing tenant protections, introducing new legislation and proposing innovative strategies, the administration and allies are ensuring that residents can stay in the neighborhoods they’ve built while creating new pathways for affordability, stability, and community-driven development.
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