{"id":254773,"date":"2026-07-29T17:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254773\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:36:08","slug":"how-diamonte-walkers-hill-district-roots-shape-her-housing-mission-at-rising-tide-partners-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254773\/","title":{"rendered":"How Diamonte Walker\u2019s Hill District roots shape her housing mission at Rising Tide Partners \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 As Pittsburgh continues to lag behind demand in its affordable housing stock, many organizations have been working to try to solve this issue. Rising Tide Partners has spent the past five-plus years building up a portfolio of homes that are near disrepair or where residents were at risk of being displaced, in neighborhoods that have historically seen disinvestment from city stakeholders, including Homewood, Hazelwood, Wilkinsburg and others. Diamonte Walker has come in, after years helping to lead the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh as deputy executive director and serving as the inaugural CEO of the Pittsburgh Scholar House,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/05\/27\/diamonte-walker-rising-tide-partners.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to be Rising Tide Partners\u2019 second-ever CEO<\/a>, aiming to begin working on the next phase of developing their large portfolio of properties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">How did growing up and living in the Hill District impact your worldview and the work that you do today?<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">My great-great-grandparents came here in the late 1800s, coming out of the agricultural south. I\u2019m a fifth-generation Hill District resident. Everything you like about me, you can attribute to the Hill District. If there\u2019s something you don\u2019t like about me, you can attribute it to the Hill District. I am incredibly proud of the community that I\u2019m from. I feel like I received a world-class education just by leaving my front doorstep every morning. I grew up at a time where we were dealing with a pervasive crime issue in the Hill District. There were scary times, which is why I cannot be intimidated. I\u2019m not afraid of hard work. I know what it means to be a team player.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/27\/personalities-diamonte-walker-rising-tide-partners.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/27\/personalities-diamonte-walker-rising-tide-partners.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 As Pittsburgh continues to lag behind demand in its affordable housing stock, many organizations have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2313,108595,9731,73,75,74,108594],"class_list":["post-254773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-affordable-housing","tag-diamonte-walker","tag-hill-district","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-rising-tide-partners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254773","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=254773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}