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An old car sits on blocks between two McKeesport homes on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Advocates tell Allegheny County Board of Health: More work needed on housing code overhaul

by Quinn Glabicki July 6, 2023July 9, 2023

In her signature crocheted rainbow hat and smoke printed sweats, Aubrey Plesh, center, left, founder of Team PSBG, calls area shelters to secure other housing for former guests of the Smithfield United Church of Christ homeless shelter as she sits on the church steps on the evening of Wednesday, June 21, 2023, in Pittsburgh’s downtown. Plesh and PSBG team member Amanda Fry, right, were trying to coordinate how people would get to other shelter beds after the controversial space closed that morning at 7 a.m. At left and right, people in need of alternative shelter sit on the church steps waiting for a placement. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Smithfield homeless shelter in downtown Pittsburgh exposed frayed safety net and tested county compassion

by Stephanie Strasburg and Eric Jankiewicz July 5, 2023February 25, 2026

BLK DYMND Rewards CEO Art Robinson sits at left during a Philly Tech Weak 2023 panel. Three other panelists sit to his right. (Technical.ly Image)

Meet BLK DYMND Rewards, a Pittsburgh-founded app to support Black-owned businesses

by Atiya Irvin-Mitchell June 28, 2023June 27, 2023

A rendering of one of the proposed developments located at the corner of 30th and Railroad streets as presented to the Planning Commission by The Hudson Companies and Indovina Associates on June 27, 2023. Hudson hopes to bring two six-story apartment complexes to the neighborhood.

Metal and paint warehouses may join Strip’s housing surge

by Lucas Dufalla June 27, 2023June 28, 2023

Aubrey Plesh, founder of Team PSBG which operates the Smithfield United Church of Christ’s homeless shelter, in colorful clothes, speaks at Allegheny County Council’s special hearing on the shelter’s impending closing on Thursday, June 15, 2023, at the Allegheny County Courthouse in Downtown. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Advocates for Pittsburgh’s unhoused and business leaders met and agreed on one thing: Bathrooms

by Lucas Dufalla and Eric Jankiewicz June 17, 2023June 20, 2023

A tent is set up on the corner of the overpass above I-376 on Smithfield Street.

Pittsburgh’s leaked draft policy provides insight into homeless camp plans

by Eric Jankiewicz June 9, 2023June 15, 2023

Eric Miskovitch, seen from behind in a black and grey shirt, looks through a window of the former State Correctional Institution Pittsburgh on Thursday, May 18, 2023, in Marshall-Shadeland. Miskovitch used to be incarcerated at the institution, and he’s now pitching that the vacant building could be part of the solution to the housing crisis. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Why I want to get back into a prison I left some 20 years ago — and then open it up to those in need

by First-person essay by Eric Miskovitch, as told to Rich Lord June 9, 2023November 5, 2025

Houses on a hillside in Pittsburgh.

URA board approves borrowing for affordable housing

by Eric Jankiewicz June 8, 2023June 11, 2023

People gather to watch the demolition of the Cheswick Generating Station along Garfield Street in Springdale on June 2, 2023. (Photo by Quinn Glabicki/PublicSource)

In the Allegheny Valley, after a century of coal power, the towers have toppled

by Lucas Dufalla and Quinn Glabicki June 2, 2023June 3, 2023

A person waits across the street for the Smithfield United Church of Christ shelter to open for the evening on May 8, 2023, in downtown Pittsburgh. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Allegheny County previews plans for users of Smithfield Street shelter, but operator warns of calamity

by Eric Jankiewicz May 30, 2023June 12, 2023