Most Pittsburgh-area communities are losing residents – here’s why that might be OK

By Christopher Briem, Regional Economist, University Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh

Few city planning concepts are as sacrosanct as the idea that growth is good and decline is bad.

For cities and counties, population growth is universally seen as a metric that defines success. Even stable population trends can be cast as stagnation to be avoided at all costs.

The Pittsburgh region illustrates the problem with that thinking. Between 2020 and 2025 the city of Pittsburgh added…

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