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In this newsletter: PublicSource reporters pored over emails, sifted through public records and conducted dozen of interviews with people experiencing homelessness as part of our ongoing investigation into how homelessness is being addressed in the Pittsburgh area. This week, we delve into the challenges faced by the city's two ‘low-barrier’ shelters.

Also, two years after Ed Gainey won his race for Pittsburgh mayor in large part by focusing on police accountability, some candidates for Allegheny County executive seem to be betting on a different campaign messaging tactic — public safety.

Our top story

Investigation: Allegheny County’s first season with two ‘low-barrier’ shelters included wintry mix of problems and challenges, accounts and emails show

Though shelter capacity in and near downtown Pittsburgh increased with the opening of Second Avenue Commons, that facility and another at Smithfield United Church of Christ filled rapidly — and their “low barrier” models led to very different realities.

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NOT TO MISS

Safety — not police accountability — a focus in Allegheny County exec race

Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures welcomes Booker Prize-finalist Ruth Ozeki, author of “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” to the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland on March 13. This season’s 2022/23 Ten Evenings speakers include Joy Harjo, Hanif Abdurraqib and Hanya Yanagihara.

See the full roster at pittsburghlectures.org/ten-evenings. Purchase your in-person or virtual tickets and subscriptions at pittsburghlectures.org.

WANT MORE? WE'RE ON IT..

The University of Pittsburgh is unable to provide concrete data to show whether a roughly year-old partnership between mental health professionals and campus police has helped students in crisis.
Have you checked out our Board Explorer database lately? We keep tabs on who's in power in the Pittsburgh region by tracking the rouhgly 500 unelected members of boards, commissions and other public agencies. Explore the database.

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Comic: The menstrual movement — a local youth perspective

Symposium featuring gender equity leaders open to the public March 24

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