As a new shelter is scheduled to open in Downtown Pittsburgh in the coming weeks, officials said they are hoping to move homeless people from encampments to the new site. Dubbed Second Avenue Commons, the 45,000-square foot, five-story facility will have 43 single-room apartments and operate year-round. It will be
A new 45,000-square-foot facility homeless shelter in Downtown Pittsburgh will soon open to help provide services and beds for people in need. The Second Avenue Commons is run by Pittsburgh Mercy, in collaboration with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services, Community Kitchen Pittsburgh, Second Avenue Commons, Inc. and UPMC.
UPMC and Allegheny County Department of Human Services will also work in the new facility in downtown Pittsburgh, providing medical and social services resources.
Today’s red-hot labor market has employers recruiting furiously for workers. There’s evidence that businesses across the country have opened up positions to people whose criminal pasts once might have shut them out of jobs.