South Oakland Housing Sources

For our group project, my team and I are researching the potential expansion of student housing (such as the new Bouquet Gardens buildings) and the ups and downs of off-campus living in South Oakland. The first source that I found was the most obvious, the Off-Campus Living page of Pitt's website. This source includes a renter's guide, roommate and subletting service, and even a landlord survey. Next, I chose the blog that we discussed in class, LandorSlum. This site lets students rate and discuss their landlords in a format similar to RateMyProfessor. My most informative, relevant sources so far were this video that I found a few years back in the WTAE news archives, which describes Pitt's crackdown on slum lords in South Oakland, and this video, which describes the mayor's effort to "spruce up" Oakland.