Burns Heights complex to be razed

Frank Aggazio, executive director of the Allegheny County Housing Authority, stands in the Burns Heights public housing complex in Duquesne.

[wwest]

Great!!!!It's an eyesore

[disgusted]

I cant even finish reading the article. So build single family houses for HUD tenants to destroy, just like they did to Burns Heights? What a shame! Thats our government money hard at work.

Public housing "should be" to help people get on their feet and make something for themselves so they can move on. Not a way of life! The article says one lady who lived there for 44 years! Collecting government money for 44 years?? Nice......... your telling me you can't find a job in 44 years??

OK enough ........ I'm just saying I can't wait to drive by in 5 years and see those beautiful houses destroyed by people who don't appreciate it. Our tax dollars put to good use... NOT!

[movin on up]

Don't worry they will all start migrating up into West Mifflin. No where left to live in Duquesne. Why do you think they want to build townhouses up at Westwood.

[Rick]

Waste of money.

[Disgusted]

Well I just drove by those nice new houses - off of Crawford, near Center St, and I see that they are all still up for sale. I guess the HUD recipients cant stop living the life of crime long enough to inquire on how to buy one of them.

[Greg Old Timer]

I used to live in Burns Heights many years ago. At that time those who lived there had jobs and took good care of the property, cut the grass, painted their apartments, repaired their screendoors, windows, etc.. They purchased their own coal for the furnace to keep warm in the winter. No AC in the summer, just open the doors and windows. Then government came in and said they were making too much money and that this was low income housing so those people had to go.
Once low income or no income people moved in the place went to CRAP.