What will happen to Pittsburgh's last projects? (Arlington Heights, Bedford: low crime, neighborhoods)

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As with most cities, Pittsburgh has been eliminating, or heavily refurbishing, its projects. Going down the list from what I'm aware

• Saint Clair - Closed
• Broadhead Manor- Closed
• East Liberty Towers - Closed
• Arlington Heights - Shrunk to 143 units during the 1990s
• Allequippa Terrace - Turned into the Oak Hill mixed-income community
• Addison Terrace - soon to be converted into a mixed-income community
• Bedford Dwellings - Half shut down in last decade, with a mixed-income privately-managed community replacing it - the other half soon to be refurbished.

There are basically four Housing-authority managed properties which haven't been closed, reduced significantly, or refurbished - Homewood North, Allegheny Dwellings, Glen Hazel, and Northview Heights.

Glen Hazel has an unusually low crime rate for a project. The neighborhood as a whole (which is almost entirely the family project and senior housing) has a far lower crime rate than Hazelwood. Hell, only six city neighborhoods had a lower Part 1 crime rate in 2010. So it's not a problem for the city. Homewood North will probably be refurbished and turned into a mixed-income community one day, for similar reasons as the Hill District (it's part of the fabric of the neighborhood, rather than an intrusion).

The ones I wonder about the most are Allegheny Dwellings and Northview Heights. Both are fairly dangerous places which are pretty isolated, socially and physically, from the surrounding community. I think they probably almost lack as much community "pull" as the projects in the south of the city had. I do wonder, for this reason, about the implications to nearby neighborhoods - Perry South getting worse, the rest of Fineview becoming unstable, and Spring Hill-City View, Summer Hill, Perry North, or Spring Garden going downhill rapidly in the same manner that much of the Southern slope has.


Thoughts?