More than a week after a fire at the Second Avenue Commons shelter Downtown displaced more than 100 people, officials plan to move them to a facility in Allentown.
Storm clouds gathered above the shuttered Second Avenue Commons homeless shelter as Ronald McGinnis literally planned his next steps. On Tuesday, the 59-year-old homeless man, who entered the Downtown shelter six weeks ago, watched people pour out of the building as flames shot off its roof and smoke filled the
Pam Steimer was working two jobs when she was priced out of her Pittsburgh apartment 18 months ago. She moved into a hotel while she searched for a new place to live. But rent prices were “out of my reach,” she said, and often required deposits equal to about three