Pittsburgh is a mess. I grew up there and came back recently to visit after 20 years. I walked a street for a few miles, and it was homeless after homeless. Heartbreaking change to see. I spoke with some missionaries who were handing out provisions, and they said the next street up was even worse.

Reminds me of what happened to San Francisco after the tech boom. What a loss. These people who come to these cities for the economic zone are sick - they will literally let people die on the street. I wish Pittsburgh could tax the landowners into poverty.

Is this not the Rust-Belt writ large?

De-industrialization for decades on decades - of which Pittsburgh did an okay job of pivoting (many many other towns nearby faired far far worse) - pile on brain drain to the Coasts and a opioid epidemic to boot, I don’t see how this is an indictment of Yinzers.

This is nonsense. No one that wants a shelter in Pittsburgh and can play well with others doesn’t get one. There are lots of housing projects and benefits to those who “need” them despite the fact that those who “need” them could work and earn on their own. The vast majority of homeless have other problems.

Silly leftist talking points - If you taxed the landowners into poverty they would simply move to the outside boroughs and … oh wait they already did that long before the taxation became as asinine as you are suggesting.