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A month after the shelter fire, unhoused people ‘strive for another day’ as advocates look ahead

From left, Marvell Stillwell, 39, Tara Springer, 34, Anita Green, 43, and Timothy Maloni, 42, photographed throughout Pittsburgh in June 2024. The four have...

Open letter from advocates for unhoused people calls on Downtown shelter to stop kicking people out for ‘minor infractions’

Activist and community organizer Sam Schmidt and Howard Ramsey, currently living on the streets, both of the Our Streets Collective, leave Second Avenue Commons...

Supreme Court to consider whether local governments can make it a crime to sleep outside if no inside space is available

Like poverty, homelessness in the U.S. is not race-neutral. Black Americans represent 13% of the population but comprise 21% of people living in poverty and...

Caring for animals is a hands-on task. The pandemic has upended operations (and fundraising) for Pittsburgh-area shelters.

by Kellen Stepler Animals aren’t at a great risk for COVID-19, but the pandemic has upended care at local shelters.   As businesses shuttered in response to...

Pittsburgh, Allegheny County experience critical shortage of public housing

Aki Witherspoon and Chris Winston, both 20, live in transitional housing provided by the nonprofit Familylinks. They submitted their applications for low-income public housing a few days before the list closed. (Photo by Alexandra Kanik / PublicSource) by Halle Stockton PublicSource Nearly 23,000 people live in limbo as they wait for public housing in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.

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