Jake Pawlak
@jakepawlak.com
Reject Austerity, Embrace Dirigisme | Native of Pittsburgh, Appalachia | currently Deputy Mayor to Mayor Ed Gainey | Views My Own
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Happy Father's Day to those who celebrate
June 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Happy Father's Day to those who celebrate
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It is the honor of my life to serve as Mayor of Pittsburgh.
We built and preserved over 1,600 affordable housing units, increased public safety, reduced homicides, reduced gun violence, and achieved 19% job growth
Vote Ed Gainey, and we will continue to grow. #WPXIDebate
We built and preserved over 1,600 affordable housing units, increased public safety, reduced homicides, reduced gun violence, and achieved 19% job growth
Vote Ed Gainey, and we will continue to grow. #WPXIDebate
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It is the honor of my life to serve as Mayor of Pittsburgh.
We built and preserved over 1,600 affordable housing units, increased public safety, reduced homicides, reduced gun violence, and achieved 19% job growth
Vote Ed Gainey, and we will continue to grow. #WPXIDebate
We built and preserved over 1,600 affordable housing units, increased public safety, reduced homicides, reduced gun violence, and achieved 19% job growth
Vote Ed Gainey, and we will continue to grow. #WPXIDebate
No one should be able to cut corners in the building permitting process just because they have my phone number, and under the Gainey Administration, they aren't.
Team Gainey isn't shy about being less accessible to developers.
Deputy Mayor Jake Pawlak: “What they are talking about is ... calling in political favors to get preferred treatment. That’s something that’s been done a lot in the past that we absolutely don’t do.”
Deputy Mayor Jake Pawlak: “What they are talking about is ... calling in political favors to get preferred treatment. That’s something that’s been done a lot in the past that we absolutely don’t do.”
March 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
No one should be able to cut corners in the building permitting process just because they have my phone number, and under the Gainey Administration, they aren't.
Pittsburgh is facing an acute housing affordability crisis, and city, regional, & state leadership and responsible affordable housing developers are stepping up to the challenge.
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January 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Pittsburgh is facing an acute housing affordability crisis, and city, regional, & state leadership and responsible affordable housing developers are stepping up to the challenge.
Great interview with Dave Breingan of Lawrenceville United on how Inclusionary Zoning is working in Lawrenceville and why we need to expand it citywide:
How Lawrenceville’s Solving Its Affordability Problem - City Cast Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh needs thousands of new homes to meet demand, and there’s a lot of local politicking behind potential solution...
pittsburgh.citycast.fm
January 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Great interview with Dave Breingan of Lawrenceville United on how Inclusionary Zoning is working in Lawrenceville and why we need to expand it citywide:
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“In reality, it's a taxpayer funded rent subsidy for individuals making as much as $85,000 per year. It's a very poorly disguised Trojan horse that does nothing but enrich developers on the taxpayer's dime.”
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Pittsburgh city councilor introduces alternate scaled-back inclusionary zoning proposal
A new bill introduced by Pittsburgh City Councilor Bob Charland would scale back the proposed use of a zoning law to encourage more affordable housing — setting up a conflict with Mayor Ed Gainey.
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December 4, 2024 at 7:49 PM
“In reality, it's a taxpayer funded rent subsidy for individuals making as much as $85,000 per year. It's a very poorly disguised Trojan horse that does nothing but enrich developers on the taxpayer's dime.”
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Great🧵dissecting a terrible bill - if passed, this would give corporate developers a blank check of Pittsburghers' tax dollars to build housing that most of those same Pittsburghers wouldn't be able to afford to rent.
get a load of this — there's a new bill before city council that would wreck the city's Inclusionary Zoning policy: pittsburgh.legistar.com/LegislationD...
City of Pittsburgh - File #: 2024-1284
Title: Ordinance amending the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title Nine: Zoning, Article III: Overlay Zoning Districts, Chapter 907: Development Overlay Districts, to amend Section 907.04: IZ-O, Inclu...
pittsburgh.legistar.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM
Great🧵dissecting a terrible bill - if passed, this would give corporate developers a blank check of Pittsburghers' tax dollars to build housing that most of those same Pittsburghers wouldn't be able to afford to rent.
Challenge...
"More than half of renter households—over 22 million—are rent-burdened, meaning they pay over 30 percent of their income toward rent and utilities, and one in five report severe rent burden, paying over 50 percent."
"More than half of renter households—over 22 million—are rent-burdened, meaning they pay over 30 percent of their income toward rent and utilities, and one in five report severe rent burden, paying over 50 percent."
The Renters’ Republic | Charlie Dulik
In a majority-homeowner nation, the rental crisis alone cannot explain Harris’s defeat, especially since the concentration of renters in cities means that as a group they likely still tilted toward he...
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November 27, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Challenge...
"More than half of renter households—over 22 million—are rent-burdened, meaning they pay over 30 percent of their income toward rent and utilities, and one in five report severe rent burden, paying over 50 percent."
"More than half of renter households—over 22 million—are rent-burdened, meaning they pay over 30 percent of their income toward rent and utilities, and one in five report severe rent burden, paying over 50 percent."
Damn straight.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services, has called for an end to adding fluoride to public water supplies — but that decision is made at the local level.
Pittsburgh-area water systems have no plans to remove fluoride
President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Health Secretary wants to rid American water of Fluoride. But as of now, municipalities have their own say on whether the treatment is used.
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November 27, 2024 at 4:03 AM
Damn straight.
The transformation in our City-County response to homelessness in the past year has been enormous, Big thanks to the folks in Pittsburgh Public Safety & Allegheny County Human Services.
"We don't need Code Blue this year because we believe we have enough spaces in the system to support everyone."
"We don't need Code Blue this year because we believe we have enough spaces in the system to support everyone."
City Council hears update on county prep on homelessness this winter
County officials said the strategy for this winter is to make sure there are safe and warm places during the day for the homeless to seek shelter, including expanded daytime hours at Second Avenue Com...
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November 23, 2024 at 11:41 PM
The transformation in our City-County response to homelessness in the past year has been enormous, Big thanks to the folks in Pittsburgh Public Safety & Allegheny County Human Services.
"We don't need Code Blue this year because we believe we have enough spaces in the system to support everyone."
"We don't need Code Blue this year because we believe we have enough spaces in the system to support everyone."
ICYMI: Last week Mayor Gainey delivered his 2025 State of the City Address, focusing on:
☑️ Solid Infrastructure,
☑️ Safe Neighborhoods,
☑️ Thriving Downtown,
☑️ Affordable Housing,
☑️ Small Business Supports,
☑️ Workforce Development.
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYB...
☑️ Solid Infrastructure,
☑️ Safe Neighborhoods,
☑️ Thriving Downtown,
☑️ Affordable Housing,
☑️ Small Business Supports,
☑️ Workforce Development.
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYB...
Pittsburgh City Council Regular Meeting - 11/12/24
YouTube video by City Channel Pittsburgh
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November 19, 2024 at 4:58 PM
ICYMI: Last week Mayor Gainey delivered his 2025 State of the City Address, focusing on:
☑️ Solid Infrastructure,
☑️ Safe Neighborhoods,
☑️ Thriving Downtown,
☑️ Affordable Housing,
☑️ Small Business Supports,
☑️ Workforce Development.
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYB...
☑️ Solid Infrastructure,
☑️ Safe Neighborhoods,
☑️ Thriving Downtown,
☑️ Affordable Housing,
☑️ Small Business Supports,
☑️ Workforce Development.
Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYB...