The Urban Redevelopment Authority has announced a comprehensive affordable housing plan for the Lower Hill District. Tax-equivalent payments generated by the $1 billion redevelopment of the 28-acre site will be directed toward funding affordable housing in the neighborhood. The plan ensures that as the neighborhood becomes more valuable, housing remains accessible to existing and future residents.

The Lower Hill redevelopment is one of the most significant urban projects in Pittsburgh. It includes office towers, residential space, cultural venues, and public spaces. For the neighborhood to evolve responsibly, housing must remain affordable. The URA's plan is designed to ensure that happens.

Lower Hill Affordable Housing Plan
$1B+ Total investment projected across the 28-acre Lower Hill site
28 acres Area under redevelopment, including former Civic Arena site
Tax Revenues Directed toward affordable housing funding

Development as Shared Prosperity

Redevelopment can displace communities or it can include them. The URA's plan attempts inclusion. Tax revenues from new development stay in the neighborhood and fund housing for people who might otherwise be priced out. This is not charity. This is structuring development to benefit the existing community.

"The Lower Hill is becoming more valuable. That value should benefit the people who stayed and believed in the neighborhood."

Community Leader

The plan is under construction alongside the Wylie Concert Venue and FNB Financial Center. The redevelopment of the Lower Hill is not separate from affordable housing. They are interlocking pieces of the same process.

Implementation of the affordable housing funding plan is expected to begin in 2027.

Pittsburgh Development Business