Kate Giammarise
ReporterKate Giammarise focuses her reporting on poverty, social services and affordable housing. Before joining WESA, she covered those topics for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly five years; prior to that, she spent several years in the paper’s Harrisburg bureau covering the legislature, governor and state government. She was part of the P-G staff that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting on the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. She has won numerous state and local awards for her reporting and was honored with a 2020 Keystone Media Award for her beat reporting on poverty. She can be reached at kgiammarise@wesa.fm or 412-697-2953.
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Advocates hope the vote will help tenants get more say over housing policy in Allegheny County.
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Pittsburgh is spending most of its share of a settlement with opioid manufacturers on a diversion program that aims to put people accused of low-level crimes into treatment rather than jail.
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Most households that are eligible for the federally funded program for children will be enrolled automatically and will not have to do anything to apply.
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Swanson had initially not intended to stay long at Action Housing. Now 75, he will step down as the organization’s executive director later this year.
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The City of McKeesport repeatedly failed to respond to Right to Know requests and showed “direct disregard” for the state’s Right to Know law, according to a recent determination from Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records.
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Ed Nusser, the county's new housing strategy director, sat down with WESA last week to discuss Allegheny County’s housing challenges and opportunities.
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A statewide anti-domestic violence nonprofit organization is questioning whether Laurie MacDonald's campaign for Congress improperly drew on the resources of the Center for Victims, the charity she runs.
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Gov. Josh Shapiro has said he wants to eliminate the waiting list, and has proposed putting an additional $483 million in federal and state funds to do so into this year’s budget.
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Calling for “500 in 500,” the push by Allegheny County leaders aims to move unhoused people out of shelters and into more permanent, stable housing.
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A company official blamed a lack of state Medicaid reimbursements for the impending shutdown. DHS officials say the facility owes the Commonwealth approximately $800,000.