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Pittsburgh officials give people experiencing homeless deadline to vacate Stockton Avenue encampment

December 12, 2022
KDKA-TV
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  • City of Pittsburgh
  • homeless services
  • homelessness
  • KDKA-TV
  • Second Avenue Commons

Short and long term barriers impede path to stable housing for Pittsburgh’s growing homeless community

December 7, 2022
Pittsburgh City Paper
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  • Allegheny County DHS
  • help for the homeless
  • homeless services
  • homeless shelter
  • low-barrier shelter
  • Pittsburgh City Paper
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • unsheltered homeless

Editorial: Creative solutions needed for homeless crisis

December 4, 2022
Tribune-Review
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  • Allegheny County DHS
  • Allegheny Health Network
  • homeless services
  • homeless shelter
  • low-barrier shelter
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • Tribune-Review
  • UPMC
  • Winter Shelter

With temperatures falling, worries rise as Pittsburgh’s new homeless shelter is already at capacity

December 2, 2022
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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  • Allegheny County DHS
  • Allegheny Health Network
  • homeless services
  • homeless shelter
  • low-barrier shelter
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • UPMC
  • Winter Shelter

Just a week over opening, Second Avenue Commons shelter seeing overflow

December 2, 2022
KDKA-TV
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  • Allegheny Health Network
  • homeless services
  • homeless shelter
  • KDKA-TV
  • low-barrier shelter
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • UPMC
  • Winter Shelter

New Downtown Pittsburgh homeless shelter already at capacity

December 1, 2022
Tribune-Review
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  • Allegheny Health Network
  • homeless services
  • homeless shelter
  • low-barrier shelter
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • UPMC
  • Winter Shelter
  • year-round shelter

Allegheny County’s new shelter to take ‘low-barrier’ approach to couples, pets, and substance use

November 29, 2022
New Pittsburgh Courier & Public Source

Story originally published by Public Source August 17, 2022. Story updated Nov. 22, 2022.

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  • emergency shelter
  • Highmark Health
  • homeless services
  • low-barrier shelter
  • New Pittsburgh Courier
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net
  • PNC
  • Public Source
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • UPMC
  • year-round shelter

Brent Dean Robbins: Fostering thriving beyond surviving in Pittsburgh’s homeless community

November 27, 2022
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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  • Dr. Jim Withers
  • homeless services
  • Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Point Park University
  • street medicine

Second Avenue Commons shelter opens in Downtown Pittsburgh

November 22, 2022
Tribune-Review
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  • homeless services
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • Smithfield United Church of Christ
  • Tribune-Review
  • UPMC
  • Winter Shelter

Second Avenue Commons opens for overnight shelter, day programming

November 22, 2022
South Pittsburgh Reporter
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  • Allegheny County DHS
  • emergency shelters
  • low-barrier shelters
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • Smithfield United Church of Christ
  • South Pittsburgh Reporter
  • UPMC
  • Winter Shelter
  • year-round shelters

Second Avenue Commons low-barrier shelter finally opens Downtown

November 22, 2022
Pittsburgh Business Times
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  • Allegheny Health Network
  • emergency shelters
  • Highmark Health
  • homeless services
  • low-barrier shelters
  • Pittsburgh Business Times
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • PNC
  • Second Avenue Commons

New low-barrier homeless shelter opens Downtown

November 22, 2022
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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  • engagement centers
  • homeless services
  • low-barrier shelters
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • UPMC
  • Winter Shelter
  • year-round shelters

After multiple delays, a long-awaited homeless center opens in Downtown Pittsburgh

November 22, 2022
WESA
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  • Community Kitchen Pittsburgh
  • engagement centers
  • homeless services
  • low-barrier shelters
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net
  • PNC
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • UPMC
  • WESA
  • Winter Shelter
  • year-round shelters

Smithfield Street homeless shelter remains open, as new facility struggles with supply chain delays

November 22, 2022
WESA
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  • Community Human Services Corporation
  • emergency shelter
  • homeless services
  • low-barrier shelter
  • Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net
  • Second Avenue Commons
  • Smithfield United Church of Christ
  • WESA
  • Winter Shelter
  • year-round shelter

Janice Kochik brings health care to Pittsburgh’s unhoused population

November 22, 2022
NEXTpittsburgh.com
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  • Carlow University
  • homeless services
  • houseless
  • Janice Kochik
  • LGBTQ+ services
  • NEXTpittsburgh
  • Pittsburgh Mercy
  • Pittsburgh Mercy's Operation Safety Net
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