"Other people see this child who is mean and causing trouble for everyone — someone who wants to harm others. Their first instinct is to stay away from him. But there’s no such thing as a bad kid," the essayist writes.
A nonprofit attempted to buy a housing complex that was phasing out of an affordable housing mandate. But a private developer offered more money. This scenario could become common, advocates worry, as rent controls sunset. Read the story.
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The start of the fall semester through Thanksgiving break is a particularly vulnerable time known as The Red Zone, where more than 50% of sexual assaults happen. But college students are also at a heightened risk for other forms of abuse, such as intimate partner violence, throughout the academic year.
PublicSource spent six months speaking with survivors, advocates, lawyers, police and university officials to investigate the prevalence of sexual violence on Pittsburgh college campuses and its effects. Here's what we found.
"I was too naive to realize there isn’t a type of person to whom sexual violence does or does not happen. On Oct. 3, 2021, that naivety left me,” writes Kaycee Orwig in this first-person essay.
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