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Kendall Pelling, left, Rising Tide Partners’s executive director, and Dee Levy, one of the organization’s Section 8 clients, stand outside of Ms. Levy’s Hazelwood home on Saturday, April 1, 2023. Rising Tide, a non-profit assisting people in low-income housing, is trying to work with the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh to secure back payments on Section 8 vouchers for their clients like Levy. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Section 8 sold short: Pittsburgh housing authority’s mishandling of vouchers repels landlords, imperils tenants

by Eric Jankiewicz April 5, 2023June 12, 2023

Bethlehem Haven women’s shelter seeks to expand and renovate

by Eric Jankiewicz April 4, 2023April 4, 2023

The apartments and homes of Central Oakland as seen from the Schenley Bridge, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Public Source)

Pittsburgh’s push for rental registration nixed by appeals court

by Eric Jankiewicz March 17, 2023March 21, 2023

Lucas, left, in a football jacket, and Jamar, center, in a hoodie, play chess atop Jamar's grill together in an alley across from the Smithfield United Church of Christ shelter on Thursday, March 2, 2023, in Downtown. As the shelter closes at 7 a.m., Jamar sweeps the alley and sets up the chessboard he bought at the neighboring toy store, S.W. Randall Toyes & Gifts. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Allegheny County’s first season with two ‘low-barrier’ shelters included wintry mix of problems and challenges, accounts and emails show

by Amelia Winger, Eric Jankiewicz and Stephanie Strasburg March 15, 2023June 12, 2023

Alex Tabor sits in a chair, looking out the window.

At Pitt, CMU, ‘We’re workers when they want us to be, but then we’re graduate students when they don’t want to pay us’

by Emma Folts March 2, 2023March 6, 2023

Houses of various heights made of parts of U.S. currency enmeshed in green stripes. (Illustration by Natasha Vicens/PublicSource)

Assessing the odds: This year’s unusual property tax appeal season, explained

by Rich Lord February 23, 2023February 23, 2023

Two houses, one high and one low, and some U.S. currency. (Illustration by Natasha Vicens/PublicSource)

Tables turn on Allegheny County assessments, as new math favors owners over tax collectors, schools

by Julia Zenkevich and Oliver Morrison February 23, 2023February 23, 2023

Rent to a homeless person, get a check: Allegheny County sweetens pot for receptive landlords

by Eric Jankiewicz February 14, 2023February 20, 2023

Susheela Nemani-Stanger in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's office on Feb. 7, 2023. She became the URA's executive director earlier this year. (Photo by Eric Jankiewicz/PublicSource)

New URA director faces enduring problems with fresh-faced staff

by Eric Jankiewicz February 9, 2023February 9, 2023

Aim Comperatore wears a black suit and a tie with the stripes of the transgender pride flag while posing for a portrait at Comperatore's Pressley Street High Rise apartment.

Pittsburgh: Why I love you

by First-person essay by Aim T. Comperatore January 27, 2023January 27, 2023