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McKees Rocks on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Leaders in the borough are hoping that investment in homeownership for existing low-income residents is the most effective way to nurture multi-generational wealth. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
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Thousands of affordable houses? Efforts to scale up development of for-sale homes extend beyond city.

Avatar photo by Eric Jankiewicz September 25, 2023September 27, 2023

Affordable housing initiatives generally build or preserve apartments that rent to households under certain income caps, with time limits on how long the apartments stay affordable. Affordable for-sale housing is the exception.

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‘It’s just too close’: People living near fracking suffer as Pa. and local governments fail to buffer homes

by Quinn Glabicki September 14, 2023September 18, 2023
Christina DiGiulio, a field scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility, uses a FLIR camera to document emissions from a MarkWest compressor station in Washington County on August 29, 2023.
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FLIR camera in hand, watchdog traverses Washington County, revealing invisible emissions

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Pittsburgh City Council members (from left) Bobby Wilson, Barb Warwick, Erika Strassburger, Daniel Lavelle, Deb Gross and Anthony Coghill pass legislation protecting gender-affirming care in the city during a meeting in the City-County Building on September 12, 2023. (Photo by Amaya Lobato Rivas/PublicSource)
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Pittsburgh council protects gender-affirming care from out-of-state prosecution

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A person sits beside Second Avenue Commons as framed by the surrounding bridge and highway, on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2023, in Uptown. The evening was the last night for people to sty in the facility’s overflow shelter, which opened in conjunction with the June 21 closing of the emergency shelter at Smithfield United Church of Christ. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
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Shelter space around downtown Pittsburgh dwindles with another closure

Avatar photo by Eric Jankiewicz September 11, 2023September 18, 2023
Mist blurs the patchwork housing of the South Side Slopes during a dark afternoon on Tuesday, July 6, 2022, as seen from across the Monongahela River. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
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Vote delayed on proposed Allegheny County housing health code changes

Avatar photo by Venuri Siriwardane September 6, 2023September 6, 2023
View of workers in car. Kaila Venezia, a community social worker with Pittsburgh Public Safety and the City of Pittsburgh Office of Community Health and Safety, and Pittsburgh Fire Bureau Lt. Chad Hirosky, respond to a call as part of the city’s High Utilizer Program on Thursday, July 27, 2023, in Lawrenceville. Venezia looks down as she checks her phone. Lt. Hirosky gets into the driver's seat. The team, made up of people from the fire bureau and sometimes social workers and medics, links high utilizers of 911 to available services and supports them until they are ready to accept help. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
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911 becomes the go-to help line for ‘high utilizers.’ Who’s reaching out to help them? Pittsburgh firefighters

PublicSource intern Elizabeth Szeto by Elizabeth Szeto August 1, 2023July 28, 2023
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On the Hill: ‘Take it down, just let me have one brick.’

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David Lettrich, executive director of Bridge to the Mountains, is reflected in his car mirror as he takes calls from outreach workers in between rounds to encampments throughout the city on Jan. 26, 2023. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
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Allegheny County’s homeless community embraced me. Our region’s leaders should keep working to comfort unhoused people

by A first-person essay by Dave Lettrich July 12, 2023July 12, 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)
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Smithfield homeless shelter in downtown Pittsburgh exposed frayed safety net and tested county compassion

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