A small group that graduated 75 years ago from Skowhegan High School and Bloomfield Academy gather monthly to play cards, have lunch and reminisce, Amy Calder writes.
A small group that graduated 75 years ago from Skowhegan High School and Bloomfield Academy gather monthly to play cards, have lunch and reminisce, Amy Calder writes.
Allegheny County announced the impending phase-out of its Emergency Rental Assistance Program. Will a special court be overwhelmed with eviction cases?
The Monday after a nationwide eviction moratorium expired, there were 1,200 voicemails to sift through at ACTION-Housing, the nonprofit administering $80 million in emergency rent relief for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Workers fielded another 1,000 phone calls that day, Aug. 2, said General counsel Kyle Webster. They had a spike
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Harrisburg, Pa. â Almost every day for the past month, as the end of a federal freeze on evictions edges closer, Brian Bastian has checked the status of his application for rental assistance online, only to experience a familiar thud of disappointment.
Since applying at the end of March, his case has moved through three of the five stages, each completed step shown by a green circle. The next two circles, the ones standing between him and the payment that would wipe away his debt, remain stubbornly grayed out, with no progress for at least a month, he said.
Bastian, 34, said the restaurant supply company where he worked went out of business in November. His savings started to run out in January. He is seven months and thousands of dollars behind on the rent for his Pittsburgh apartment.