The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (HACP) was created in 1937 under the U.S. Housing Act of 1937 to establish public housing within the city limits. HACP was the first housing authority in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and one of the first in the United States.

History Bedford Dwellings was the authority's first Housing Project, approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 Scattered Sites were established in the late 1960s, creating culturally diverse housing locations within the city's neighborhoods. The authority's security force, later becoming an official police department, was established in 1974, after an extremely high increase of crime at the authority's Housing sites In the 1980s two closed city schools were refurbished into senior housing.

Housing sites HACP operates seven Family Communities as well as eleven Senior/Disabled/High Rise Communities. Also the authority oversees eight privately managed communities throughout the city.

Family communities Community Name Neighborhood # Units # ADA Units Addison Terrace Hill District 734 3 Allegheny Dwellings North Side 271 14 Arlington Heights South Side 143 8 Bedford Dwellings Hill District 411 21 Glen Hazel Hazelwood 127 7 Homewood North Homewood 134 8 Northview Heights North Side 488 21

Senior/disabled communities

Community Name Neighborhood # Units # ADA Units Caligiuri Plaza Allentown 104 10 Carrick Regency Carrick 66 4 Finello Pavilion Oakland 60 6 Glen Hazel High-Rise Hazelwood 97 16 Gualteri Manor Beechview 30 2 Mazza Pavilion Brookline 16 2 Morse Gardens South Side 70 4 Murray Towers Squirrel Hill 67 4 Northview Heights High-Rise North Side 87 5 Pennsylvania-Bidwell North Side 120 20 Pressley Street North Side 211 16

Privately managed communities Community Name Neighborhood Garfield Commons Garfield Bedford Hill Hill District Oak Hill Oakland Manchester Manchester New Pennley Place East Liberty Christopher A. Smith Terrace Hill District The Commons at North Aiken Garfield Silver Lake Commons Homewood Fairmont Apartments Garfield The Legacy Apartments Hill District

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 In 2009, as part of the American and Reinvestment Act, HACP received $27 million in the form of a Recovery Act Public Housing Capital Fund Formula Grant as well as created 107 Jobs. $21 million of these funds were used to make units up to code with the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards (UFAS). The other projects used with ARARA Funding, included: An authority physical needs assessment ($170,000) Replacement of the Fire Alarm System at Bedford Dwellings ($1 Million) Acquisition of Scattered Sites and Accessible Homes ($2.6 Million) Roof Replacements at Addison Hall and Northview Heights High Rise ($618,000) Renovation to the elevators at Gualtieri Manor ($152,000) administrative costs: ($1.2 Million)

See also List of public housing authorities in Pennsylvania

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