Barb Warwick
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.
- 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
- Nice story from Oakland Planning and Development Corporation by way of Payday Report on the passing of Kim Fellner and her family's contribution to affordable single-family housing in Oakland. paydayreport.com/rip-kim-fell...
- Shame on the Post-Gazette for exploiting the tragedy in Kerr County to score political points. It’s time for Pittsburgh Water to keep its promise to The Run and ensure that flooding in our neighborhood is fixed once and for all. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PAP...
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- Stellar response from City Council Prez Lavelle to the PPG's call to cut critical violence prevention funds. Gun violence is a scourge on Pgh and this $ has been instrumental in reducing it. TY, Councilman for speaking out...so disappointing that you had to. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/PAP...
- It's officially World Beard and Moustache Championship Day in the City of Pittsburgh! 🧔🏼♂️🧔🏾♀️🧔 facebook.com/events/s/202...
- 🚶🏼🚴🏼♂️🧑🏻🦽🏃🏻♂️🚴🏿♀️ 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. 🚶🏼🚴🏼♂️🧑🏻🦽🏃🏻♂️🚴🏿♀️
- Fun night for everyone at Greenfield Family Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
- Thanks to all the advocates, community members, electeds & allies supporting 3 new City bills to protect our LGBTQIA+ neighbors and other vulnerable folx. Please also join TransYOUniting this Sun 06/29 to rally for our Trans community's right to gender-affirming care. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
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- ❤️💚🖤 Gorgeous morning for the Pittsburgh Juneteenth Parade! ❤️💚🖤
- 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.
- "Dear Girl, Get Out!" www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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- Reposted by Barb WarwickA 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-...
- Reposted by Barb WarwickBillionaires 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.
- Happy Pride!
- Please join us tomorrow, May 29 at Margaux to support Western PA Fund for Choice. bit.ly/Fund4Choice
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- Thank you, @gaineyformayor.com. What an honor to fight beside you for a kinder, more equitable city. It wasn't our night. But today we get up and keep doing the work to protect and uplift our most vulnerable residents and build a Pittsburgh for all.
- One hour to get to the polls! Let's GO!!! @gaineyformayor.com
- We don’t need a mayor who feels entitled to the job. We need a mayor who has earned it. That Mayor is Ed Gainey. @gaineyformayor.com newpittsburghcourier.com?p=392200
- 💐Look! It's Mother's Day deja vu! Here's to all the families out there letting Mom do her thing...we love you so much! And don't forget to vote for @gaineyformayor.com on May 20! 💐
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- "Once I saw O’Connor’s ad claiming credit, I felt obligated to be transparent with the people of Pittsburgh: He didn’t lead on paid leave, he nearly derailed it." triblive.com/opinion/lett...
- Some clarity for voters (and for @coreyoconnorpa.bsky.social) on how Pittsburgh spent its American Rescue Plan dollars. Link to the public record on final allocations. @gaineyformayor.com pittsburgh.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...
- One of the most compelling takes I've seen on the upcoming Pittsburgh Mayoral election. Shared with permission from a post by the parent of a PPS highschool student.
- “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...
- 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...
- Reposted by Barb WarwickThis is the funniest thing to me: His opponent dared him to go on a walk and show him where he built affordable housing. He’s on that walk, and his opponent is at home tweeting <<no fair you’re just campaigning>>. Like, yeah, what did you think would happen?
- More affordable housing coming our way downtown! www.wesa.fm/development-...
- 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.
- Links to those archives here, if Corey's team would like to cross check. 🙂 www.ura.org/pages/board-... hacp.org/about/board-... www.pittsburghpa.gov/Business-Dev...
- 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.
- 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.
- Bottom line: While others talk, Ed Gainey gets it done. Props to Peduto though for coming up with a catchy name... More info and how to apply here: www.ura.org/pages/OwnPGH
- 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.
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View full threadCongrats on the debate @gaineyformayor.com. You crushed it.
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- It would be funny, if it weren't so predictable and gross. Right in line with our opponent's tactics from the very first push poll. Maybe if their candidate had more to show for a lifetime in local govt than two pieces of 10-year-old legislation, they could do better. But I doubt it.
- @coreyoconnorpa.bsky.social Next time do your research. Gainey's legacy - the unit is back online!
- The best thing about Pgh is that it feels safe to let my kids walk/bike/bus on their own. My only fear is them getting hit by a car. Road deaths are preventable with the right leadership. Thank you @gaineyformayor.com for delivering on safer streets for all. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...
- Reposted by Barb WarwickThis Black Maternal Health Week we recognize the tireless work of Birth Workers and Advocates alongside Black moms and birthing people to end the systemic inequities that cause the Black Maternal Health Crisis. Get involved with PA Black Maternal Health Caucus events: www.pahouse.com/BMH/summit2025
- Please join me tomorrow April 15 at Hazelwood Brew House from 6pm-8pm for a Meet & Greet with Mayor Ed Gainey! Family friendly event with dinner provided - so bring the kids and all your friends! Can't wait to see you there! 🙂 @gaineyformayor.com secure.actblue.com/donate/04152...
- 🥕🥔🍓🥦 Congrats to 412 Food Rescue on their 10th anniversary! Thank you for all you do to fight food insecurity and prevent waste in Pgh and Southwest PA. 🥦🍓🥔🥕
- Transit and mobility are major challenges in Pgh. Hear from our mayoral candidates at the Pittsburghers for Public Transit Forum about making it easier to walk, bike, and roll around the city. Wed. April 9. See you there! 🚍👨🦼🚴🏾🚶🏿 www.facebook.com/share/p/1BjG...
- Reposted by Barb WarwickSign up to join us Saturday in Four Mile Run with @barb4pgh.bsky.social: mobilize.us/gaineyformay... Sign up to join us Sunday in Squirrel Hill: www.mobilize.us/gaineyformay...
- Reposted by Barb WarwickUnite PAC, @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social , Pennsylvania United, Alliance for Police Accountability, Straight Ahead, OnePA, and 1Hood Power present our jointly endorsed slate of judicial candidates for the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas primary election on May 20th. #VoteforJustice
- There’s been a lot of talk lately about City finances. The reality, according to MAS Financial Advisory Services, is that: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.” (19:14 in the Feb. 19 Standing Committee Meeting clip). www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6te...
- Reposted by Barb WarwickI'm keeping my promise to make Pittsburgh the safest city in America by reimagining Public Safety + ensuring every community has the resources it needs. ✅ Reducing gun violence ✅ Increased hiring and wages for public safety teams ✅ Housing the homeless ✅ Vision Zero strategy
- Big win for our striking PPG workers. Stay strong, friends...We've got your back! #PittsburghIsaUnionTown www.unionprogress.com/2025/03/25/f...
- Join me this Sun, March 23 at noon in Squirrel Hill to knock doors for Mayor Gainey! Ed got more done for residents in 3 years than other administrations have done in decades. Let's spread the word that Pgh believes in @gaineyformayor.com and building a Pgh for All! www.mobilize.us/gaineyformay...
