Pittsburgh's Homeless Forced to Move for the G-20 Summit

On Friday I traveled with fellow One HOOD members Paradise Gray and Teisha Stolich under the 9th Street Bridge on the North Side of Pittsburgh to shoot footage for the Season 3 Premiere of This Week With Jasiri X. The reason we wanted to record here is because Pittsburgh is trying to sell itself as this "revitalized" city that has not felt the debilitating effects of the recession. We wanted to show the REAL Pittsburgh that is very much still suffering economically.

When we arrived we approached the people forced to live in these wretched conditions about what we were doing and why we wanted to document their struggle. What we found out made the situation even worse. The City of Pittsburgh was forcing them to move away from downtown so the leaders of the G-20 summit would not see Pittsburgh's homeless. Just a few hours earlier they were told by the police they had to pack up and move their stuff immediately or be subject to arrest.

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