Penn Hills has long been home to a Black middleclass community, but some claim environmental racism is demolishing it — literally
Dec 11, 2024
Lincoln Park is one of Pittsburgh’s earliest Black suburbs. Between 1900 and 1970, middle-class Black families bought and built homes and created a thriving community. But since the 1990s, the neighborhood has become ground zero of the municipality’s inventory of vacant and abandoned homes, which have turned into vacant, overgrown lots.
“They're tearing down these houses,” says Penn Hills resident Wynona Harper…