FOOD AND SUPPLIES PROGRAM

Thank you for your participation in this program. Our last program of the year was November 12th 2022. We will resume this program again in March of 2023. Thank you.

History of the Pittsburgh Community (Atlanta, GA)

Founded in 1883 by formally enslaved Africans who became Black industrial workers, Pittsburgh is one of Atlanta’s oldest neighborhoods. It became a destination for families looking to move away from counties to the south of Atlanta where the Ku Klux Klan was active. The rail yards that skirted the community were a major source of pollution, and lookers-on likened it to the smog created by the steel mills in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The association stuck, and the community would become permanently known as Pittsburgh. African-American businesses lined McDaniel Street in its early days as segregation prevented blacks from shopping in white business districts.

Pittsburgh boasts a number of assets that are now making it attractive to developers and investors. It is connected via an ample grid of city streets, and located very close to Interstates 75-85. It is an Atlanta Belt-Line neighborhood – a distinction limited to 40 or so communities along a 22-mile loop of parks, trails and transit currently under construction. Sharp increases in home values in the southwest Atlanta, including Pittsburgh, have seen median sale prices jump 68 percent from 2011 to 2015, threatening to push-out long term residents.