Tri-COG Land Bank

04/21/2026

FREE 🏡 Home Resource Fair this Saturday!

WHEN:
April 25th Noon-3:00 PM

WHERE:
UPMC Neighborhood Center
6401 Penn Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

New or longtime homeowner? We’ve got resources for you!
Home equity • Repairs • Budgeting • Energy savings • And more!

Register HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amachi-pittsburgh-home-resource-fair-tickets-1984410098022

Thanks Huntington National Bank Amachi Pittsburgh and NeighborWorks Western Pennsylvania

04/10/2026

The Tri-COG Land Bank team is excited to be an exhibitor at Allegheny League of Municipalities Spring Educational Conference! If you’re in attendance, be sure to stop by and grab some candy, visit with the Kool-Aid Man, and ask any questions you have! 

03/31/2026

Today, the TCLB team got to work with Allegheny County Conservation District to do soil testing on a few of our vacant lots! We are very excited to provide these results to our upcoming tenant, who is planning to create a small garden in this space. 🪴 The testing results that we will be receiving in the next few weeks will help to inform where they can plant in the ground and where raised beds might be needed.

We are so happy to be able to provide a service like this with the help of ACCD! 🪏 Here’s to more soil testing in the future!

03/16/2026

We’ve had an exciting past few days at TCLB. First, we sold our 111th property to a couple who will be using a 203(k) loan from loanDepot to renovate their property and we couldn’t be more excited to see the results!

And speaking of results, we were able to do a final inspection of a property we sold in October 2025! This rehab in Churchill is absolutely stunning and we can’t wait to see a new family enjoying it soon!

Wonder what’s next for us? Stick around and find out! 🏠🪧

03/03/2026

We are so excited to announce that we have now sold a total of 110 properties! 🎉 That’s 110 times we have been able to save a property and watch it be put back into productive reuse! Thank you to all of our partners and buyers for helping us reach this milestone! We absolutely couldn’t do it without you.

Here’s to another 110!!! 🏡🛠️

02/06/2026

Exciting news for Allegheny County! 🏠 The HOUSING For All Executive Order launches a comprehensive plan to boost quality, attainable housing in our region.

We are thrilled to see this commitment to creating stable housing opportunities and ensuring residents across the county have a place to call home.

06/11/2024

We're so glad Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh was able to revive these homes and give new homeowners a chance!

Across the country, the American dream of owning a home has been shoved out of reach for various reasons, some of them beyond people’s control. At...

06/06/2024

Good on Turtle Creek Valley Council of Governments for amplifying this issue!

National companies have been acquiring single-family homes in the Pittsburgh region, amassing large amounts of property in recent years, according to a recent report.

05/31/2024

Wonderful news! CodeNForce has been incredibly helpful to the communities that use it.

Exciting news! Rep. Abigail Salisbury and the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development are awarding us a $25,000 grant to support our CodeNForce software.

CodeNForce is a database we created to make inspecting, citing and tracking properties easier for local code enforcement officers – which gets us faster on track to tidying up properties.

Read more details in the full news release below:
https://www.pahouse.com/salisbury/InTheNews/NewsRelease/?id=134239

05/29/2024

Check it out! The Local Government Commission recently did a study on property maintenance code enforcement with over 130 municipalities across PA.

The goal was to learn how municipalities navigate maintenance code enforcement given that PA does not have a statewide property maintenance code. Some key findings include:

• Nearly all municipal respondents (93%) characterize their community’s degree of blight as either low or moderate, but only 28% agree or strongly agree that their capacity to combat blight is sufficient.

• Over ¾ of responding municipalities have not considered intergovernmental agreements for property maintenance code enforcement.

• Over ¾ of responding property owners (78%) said that property maintenance code enforcement factors either somewhat or strongly into their future planning and development strategies.

Download and view the full report here:https://www.lgc.state.pa.us/download.cfm?file=/Reports/Other/Property%20Maintenance%20Code%20Enforcement%20Report.pdf

04/29/2024

Great news for Allegheny County residents with "tangled titles"! A new program will help residents officially transfer property titles to their name.

Tangled titles occur when the current occupant of a house is not legally recognized as the owner due to improper title transfer. This program will ultimately help residents with accessing assistance programs for home repairs and property maintenance, reducing blighted properties in Allegheny County neighborhoods.

Read more at the link below.

A new program aims to assist people living in their homes without the property legally in their name — a situation known as a “tangled title.”