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Pittsburgh's New Resilience Strategy Confronts Inequity, Infrastructure Stresses

Route Fifty: The city of Pittsburgh on Wednesday revealed a new resilience strategy, ONEPGH, a plan that focuses on the interconnected short- and long-term challenges of inequity, public health, aging infrastructure and flash flooding.

The plan hinges on collaboration among the city’s 90 distinct neighborhoods, many of which are isolated by Pittsburgh’s challenging geographic divisions, including three major rivers and numerous hills and ridges.

Pittsburgh’s low cost of living masks the ongoing stresses of residential segregation and income disparities. As of 2011, white households in the city make an average of $15,371 more a year than African-American households, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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