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In May the Pittsburgh Land Bank sold its first property on Mount Washington’s Boggs Avenue. (Photo by Alexis Wary/PublicSource)

Updated: Pittsburgh City Council approves land bank agreement, hoping for more property reuse

by Lucas Dufalla and Eric Jankiewicz August 1, 2023August 1, 2023

Raymond Craighead sits at his desk, in the Downtown office where he works for the Housing Authority City of Pittsburgh's Housing Choice Voucher Department. Like nearly half of the department's employees, he was hired since the beginning of 2022. (Photo by Eric Jankiewicz/PublicSource)

Pittsburgh’s housing authority says voucher program building firmer foundation

by Eric Jankiewicz July 31, 2023July 30, 2023

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

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh's Downtown offices, as pictured on Thursday, March 30, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

Updated: Pittsburgh housing execs pledge Section 8 service improvements this year

by Eric Jankiewicz April 27, 2023June 12, 2023

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

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

by Eric Jankiewicz February 14, 2023February 20, 2023

URA to open first-time homebuyer program

by Eric Jankiewicz January 19, 2023January 19, 2023

Hi View Gardens resident Bianca Dobbs demonstrates the unreliability of the door to her two bedroom apartment, Thursday, July 28, 2022, in McKeesport. The Hi View resident says she’s worried for the safety of herself and her 11 year old daughter as broken key fob readers mean entry to her building is no longer secure. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)

With PNC preparing to sell, a McKeesport housing complex’s residents hope hard-won improvements continue

by Kate Giammarise and Rich Lord September 19, 2022September 19, 2022

Two miniature wooden houses next to each other one with a large stack of coins and the other with a small stack of coins.

Economy & Housing

Pittsburgh’s racial homeownership gap grows. What can be done to fix it?

by Katelyn Vue April 18, 2022September 7, 2022

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