As a Cleveland native, I look at Pittsburgh somewhat jealously as a city that is achieving what Cleveland has been slow to do over the last 30 years: find a post-industrial midwestern identity.
Both are very similar cities, they have more in common with each other than others in the rust belt.
This is slowly changing as Cleveland tries to revitalize the downtown, but I'm not sure there are any good plans to help out extremely poor areas such as East Cleveland.
I'm not sure this is necessarily helping, but there was a plan to have Cleveland annex East Cleveland. The East Cleveland City Council basically nuked it and then recalled their mayor who had proposed it, IIRC.