{"id":234784,"date":"2026-07-03T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234784\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:28:07","slug":"pittston-housing-initiative-earns-national-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234784\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittston housing initiative earns national praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSTON \u2014 The City of Pittston is getting national praise over one of its housing initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The International City\/County Management Association recently awarded the city its \u201cCommunity Partnership Award\u201d for its modular home initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Pittston-area story is a great story,\u201d Pittston Mayor Mike Lombardo said.<\/p>\n<p>The Northeastern Pennsylvania Land Bank Authority recently helped develop several blighted properties in the Greater Pittston area into affordable modular homes.<\/p>\n<p>One of them is the former Paddy\u2019s Pub at 385 N. Main St. in Pittston, a longtime eyesore that city officials condemned and demolished. Another is in Dupont on Coolidge Street, and more are on the way, the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to create affordable housing,\u201d Lombardo said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The exterior of a mod home on display during a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating the Northeast Pennsylvania Land Bank's Mod-Home Initiative Project in Dupont on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"494\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CVC-L-GROUNDBREAK-1113-2.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1167410\" \/>The exterior of a mod home on display during a groundbreaking ceremony celebrating the Northeast Pennsylvania Land Bank\u2019s Mod-Home Initiative Project in Dupont on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (JASON ARDAN \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n<p>Lombardo sits on the city\u2019s housing authority board, the local Habitat for Humanity board and the Housing Supply Accelerator Board of the National League of Cities,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a city our size, receiving national recognition alongside communities from across the country is an incredible honor. It demonstrates that innovative ideas, strong partnerships, and a shared commitment to improving the lives of our residents can have an impact far beyond our city limits,\u201d city officials wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>Lombardo said he is devoted to those boards because housing is important to him \u2014 whether it be high-end units in Pittston or affordable units around the city..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHousing is a priority for me and it always will be,\u201d Lombardo said. \u201cWe are doing some things that I think are really good case studies that could be applied in every place across the Commonwealth and maybe this country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSTON \u2014 The City of Pittston is getting national praise over one of its housing initiatives. The International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[182,883,803,139,28,30,29,2485,50,802],"class_list":["post-234784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittston","tag-politics","tag-top-stories-cvc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}