Barb Warwick

Barb Warwick

@barb4pgh.bsky.social

Barb is a working mom living in the Four Mile Run corner of Greenfield. She is the Pgh City Councilmember for District 5. Personal account.

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A community call to the PA DEP to stop a garbage transfer station next to Hazelwood homes and businesses; rezoning the D5 riverfront for a healthier, more prosperous future; exploring our parks, and so much more! This month's newsletter is a MUST MUST! Check it out and subscribe.😍 buff.ly/bJimCNG

City Councilmember Barb Warwick@pghdistrict5.bsky.social

Our latest newsletter is live, with important updates on rezoning the Hazelwood riverfront to prevent environmental hazards 🌱♻️. Plus: September events and opportunities throughout District 5! buff.ly/bJimCNG

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🚶🏼🚴🏼‍♂️🧑🏻‍🦽🏃🏻‍♂️🚴🏿‍♀️ Always a fun time at Open Streets PGH! Thank you @bikepgh.bsky.social for working all year to put on these events and showing us what a city looks like when #StreetsAreForPeople. 🚶🏼🚴🏼‍♂️🧑🏻‍🦽🏃🏻‍♂️🚴🏿‍♀️

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They always close ranks at the end of the day.

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Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

Glad to stand with SEIU Healthcare and my colleagues across state, local, and fed govt to demand that UPMC stop the unlawful delays and agree to a free and fair union election for the nurses at Magee-Womens Hospital.

Proud to stand with Casa San José, SEIU, USW, Unite Here, Starbucks Workers United and unions around the US to demand the release of SEIU CA prez David Huerta. Make no mistake: ICE is not about safety, it's about terrorizing immigrants. Very glad to see so many Pghers come out to say not our city.

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A safer intersection at S. Aiken and Ellsworth is here! 📢 We advocated for this project in the 2022 budget, and thanks to the work of DOMI, this intersection now features: ✅ Ped countdown signals & audible pushbuttons ✅ Leading pedestrian intervals ✅ Updated signage ✅ Dark-skies compliant lighting

In Pittsburgh, property owners are responsible for their sidewalk, which is tough for lower-income home owners.This is an innovative solution to helping fix critical sidewalk gaps. Glad to see Hazelwood up next. Thank you Pgh DOMI for seeing this important work through. www.wesa.fm/development-...

wesa.fmPittsburgh aims to fix more battered sidewalksPittsburgh is expanding a program to repair busted-up sidewalks, footing part of the bill for low-income property owners.

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Billionaires don’t have a constitutional right to own your government. Today @khanna.house.gov and I unveiled the Abolish Super PACs Act to get money out of politics and restore democracy for, of, and by the people. We must make it harder for billionaires + corporate interests to buy our politics.

The nurses at UPMC Magee provide essential care for our region's moms, babies and others. As a union, they will have a seat at the table, helping ensure care decisions are based on patient health, not hospital profits. What's good for nurses is good for Pgh and SW PA. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

wesa.fmNurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital announce intent to unionizeStaff at one of Pittsburgh's largest labor and delivery hospitals are unionizing. About 1,000 registered nurses and advanced practice professionals have filed notice with the National Labor Relations ...

Love it when they say out loud what you knew all along. Hand over your park for our private shuttle road or forget about getting your flooding fixed.

Barb Warwick@barb4pgh.bsky.social

Thank you to the residents who came out to demand that Pittsburgh Water (PWSA) reinstate funding for the Four Mile Run Stormwater project. After nearly 10 yrs and $8.7M spent on designs, it's time to deliver a solution to this devastating flooding once and for all. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

Thank you to the residents who came out to demand that Pittsburgh Water (PWSA) reinstate funding for the Four Mile Run Stormwater project. After nearly 10 yrs and $8.7M spent on designs, it's time to deliver a solution to this devastating flooding once and for all. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

cbsnews.comPittsburgh City Council member calls for restoration of stormwater project amid recent stormsBarb Warwick said that Pittsburgh Water has promised some sort of version of the project for nearly 10 years, with no progress.

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O’Connor citing an NTSB report on the collapse of Fern Hollow bridge as proof that Mayor Gainey is letting our “bridges crumble” is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen come out from his campaign. Let’s be clear here - the collapse was the result of a failure of the Peduto admin who ignored

“Real housing justice demands that we do both: remove outdated, exclusionary policies and put inclusive ones in their place,” Gainey said. “Inclusionary zoning ensures that affordability is built into every neighborhood, not just a few.” www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

wesa.fmLot size bill advances in Pittsburgh City Council, leaving inclusionary zoning bill fate uncertainA bill that would allow housing construction on smaller parcels of land has taken another step forward in Pittsburgh City Council.

Whether it is building new, preserving units, winning LIHTCs, kick-starting our Land Bank, winning $600M for res conversions, or pushing simpler zoning & transit-oriented dev, @gaineyformayor.com has been laser-focused on keeping Pgh affordable for everyone. www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-m...

publicsource.orgWho is right about Pittsburgh housing — Gainey or O’Connor?Each Democratic mayoral candidate says they'd be better at developing affordable housing, and each offers data, but no one number says it all.

Corey's continued and baseless claims of corruption to deflect from Mayor Ed Gainey's accomplishments are an insult to our city workers and erode the public's faith government. It's a weird knee-jerk projection mindset that makes me wonder if this isn't the way they would run the city themselves.🧵

The URA has 5 years of annual reports on its website. The data for the housing tracker was pulled from URA, HACP, and City Planning board/commission meeting minutes, which have project details like exact addresses that wouldn't be in an annual report.

Lots of frantic posts coming from team Corey after last night's debate trying to disparage Mayor Gainey's incredible work on housing...so I thought I'd provide some clarity. 🧵

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Mayor Gainey funded the program with $15M in ARPA money. Then URA designed and launched it in Jan 2023. Since then, more than 150 low- to moderate-income Pittsburghers - mostly women with kids - have used the program to buy their first home.

Lots of frantic posts coming from team Corey after last night's debate trying to disparage Mayor Gainey's incredible work on housing...so I thought I'd provide some clarity. 🧵

Peduto announced the concept of OwnPGH in March 2021, but never funded it. As a former City Councilmember, Corey O'Connor should know that an unfunded program is not a real program.

Preserving decaying units is the most cost-effective way to secure affordable housing. Helping landlords make repairs in exchange for keeping a unit affordable allows them to keep renting to lower-income folks long into the future - even as rents in the neighborhood go up. So yeah, it "counts". 🧵

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Preserving decaying units is the most cost-effective way to secure affordable housing. Helping landlords make repairs in exchange for keeping a unit affordable allows them to keep renting to lower-income folks long into the future - even as rents in the neighborhood go up. So yeah, it "counts". 🧵

To be fair, I get Corey’s confusion. You see, his pro-developer friends and donors only care about New Units. In fact, they would rather we focus on exclusively new market-rate housing, because that's how they make money. The problem is, that's been the approach for a decade plus here in Pgh...

...pricing long-time Pittsburghers out of the city. As for the numbers, even Corey knows that once construction starts, you can claim it as a win. Just like in he claims Flats on Forward in Squirrel Hill that was Under Construction when he left office but was Completed under Mayor Gainey.