Should the use of Carnegie Towers be changed?

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More thank 30 people were arrested -- most on drug charges -- during a raid at Carnegie Towers, which public officials have decribed as a haven for drugs. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. said he would press for changing the building's use, possibly to senior citizen housing. Do you agree with the DA ? [Read PG story.]

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 The piece doesn't say whether it's public housing, and if it is, throw them out

 NO.  The  building is over 20 years old and is considered a head-ache to maintain.

Stop tryng to make money on someone's .  Rip it down and build a new one

that is run much more  HUD is to lazy and this is why  their projects are

drug and prostitute infested.

 The darn thing should be torn down..

Talk about a nusance place,the whole township has been affected by the goings' on there.

Our police dept. always tied up with calls to that building.

Residents tormented by the people that live there.

They close other establishments for less..

Property value , there is none...

And then you want to have it stay as a subsidized building for 20 more years..

Carnegie is going to end up like elliott and sheraden and other areas around the city..

Ghost towns..... we are almost there NOW!

Carnegie Towers needs to go.  Just read the police blotter you'll see that most of the problems in Carnegie list an address at Carnegie Towers.  Tear the place down and build something more suitable for senior citizens. 

 I COULD NOT AGREE MORE WITH THE DA. AS I BELIEVE THERE ARE SOME GOOD PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE, THE OVERWELMING MAJORITY ARE NOT. IT IS ABSOLUTLEY RIDICULOUS TO READ THE POLICE BLOTTER EVERY THURSDAY ONLY TO SEE THE CARNEGIE TOWERS IN 90% OF THE SECTION. ITS NOTHING MORE THAN A HAVEN FOR CRIMINALS. THE PEOPLE I TRULY SYMPATHIZE WITH ARE THE HOMEOWNERS IN THE SURROUNDING AREA THAT NEEDLESS TO SAY ARE FORCED TO RAISE A FAMILY AND MAINTAIN A NICE HOME WITH SO MUCH CRIME NEXT DOOR. NOT TO MENTION THE VALUE OF WHAT SOME OF THE NICE HOUSES IN THAT AREA THAT ARE DIMINSHED BASED ON A BUNCH OF CRIMINALS THAT SHOULD BE IN JAIL. GOD BLESS THE POLICE FORCE THAT DOES ALL THEY CAN TO KEEP CARNEGIE SAFE.

I agree  with all of you.  But there is decent poor people and they deserve housing.Thats what I mean by H.U.D. ain't no good.  The Rules are If you file up, you looseyour housing priviliges.  H.U.D. don't enforce the rules.  There are many complexes in PGH like the Carnegie Towers.  Downtown PGH has 3 of them.  The politicians are only worried about sucking tax $'s from the property owners and      the crooked subcontracted property managing companies.

Bridgeville Towers went to the pitts also.

 Thats right.  Throw them out.  There is plenty of needy people on the section 8 list

that would appreciate these scum-bags housing choice vouchers that they for

breaking the laws. 

City of PGH and  Allegheny County Politicians are too blinded by Downtown Condo's to clean up  the downtown drug havens like the Carnegie Towers. 

Wake up, Subsidized downtown Pgh residence's are full of drugs. 

 I lived on Library Ave behind the cesspool that is Carnegie Towers for 2 1/2 years.  I found drug scales and needles in my back yard.  Residents were extremely rude and loud especially late night, early morning.  At most it should be made into a Senior citizen housing plan, better yet would be to tear it down and let a developer build some new townhomes, condos or apartments that would not allow the dreggs of society to live there.  This is the Carnegie Councils fault.  I attended meetings specifically about the towers when I lived there and council always sided with the garbage who lived there.  Since the council members did not live near the towers they didn't see it as a problem even though the majority of all calls to police were because of the towers.  As one Great Police Officer called it, 10 storys of Hell!.  The reason I moved from Carnegie was because of the towers.  Section 8 housing has destroyed many once great towns and Carnegie is no exception.  The council needs to change it's LIBERAL minds and stand up to the slugs and say no more section 8 in the towers.  Only by bringing back hard working, tax paying families will Carnegie become great again.  Allowing the generations of welfare recipients to continue thier reign of terror will destroy any chance of that area making any type of a comeback.   Senior Citizen place, yes, tear it down and never allow it to become section 8, even better.

why am i not surprised by what i'm reading?

do you think if the authorities would have dealt with the problems associated with of low-income housing, now manifesting itself in carnegie towers, when it was mainly a "black" problem, you wouldn't be having these problems in the once homogenous and "pristine" suburbs?

and why is all of the attention focused on carnegie towers?  has northview heights been rid of its problems?  has st. clair village?

the adage "when white america catches a cold, black america catches pneumonia" comes to mind.

and the same garbage is happening where i grew up.

 I m white and grew up in the projects in mckeesport.   no one is

trying to be racial.  My arguement is The crocked government funded agencies

such as HUD, FHLP, URA, along with the slumlords funded by the government

are responsible for the properties left running down instead of

nipping the problem at the start.  These suburbanites who use the poor people

to blame the crime on when need to wake up.  Crime been happening in their

neighborhoods before the poor city people moved in.

 Wow, I never mentioned anything about color but you went there right away.  Actually when I lived behind that cesspool over 65% of the residents where white.  Most of the problems I had was with the white trash that refused to act responsible.  I guess if you are predisposed to think of everything as an attack on blacks then I guess you have a problem.  The biggest problem was the councils unwilligness to deal with the problem.  The problem is was not one of color but I guess some people like yourself feel the need to make it about color.  The article was talking about Carnegie and Carnegie is not responsible for the Northview Heights or St. Clair Villiage, those communities didn't deal with the problem either.    Bottom line, being poor does not excuse acting like scum, no matter what color. 

 Your right. Just because people are poor,dirt poor or grew up dirt poor is no excuse to

choose to live like scums.  I don't understand why the PPG is so focused on the Carnegie

Towers.  This type of public housing living is going on all through PGH including

downtown PGH.  PHFA/HUD calls themselves inspecting.  They are only promptting

ghetto atmospheres by refusing to acknowledge the existing problems such as

slumlords ,  slumlord-mngt.

Your the one who brought up when white americans catches a cold,

black american's catch pneumonia.