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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Officials with Pennsylvania’s Department of Aging say the 10-year-plan will help develop policies that meet the needs of the state's rapidly growing senior population.
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Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority is proposing an overhaul of its Small Landlord Fund, aiming to reach more landlords — and ultimately help house more people, officials said Thursday.
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Allegheny County and Pa. health officials say they are working to reverse declines in WIC enrollmentState and local health officials who administer WIC say they are working to boost the number of families who are able to use the program.
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Pittsburgh’s housing authority will open its Section 8 voucher waiting list today for the first time since 2018.
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Oversight board to secretly review how Pa. counties spent millions of dollars to fight opioid crisisCounties must report how they spent tens of millions of dollars they received in the first rounds of opioid settlement payments.
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Allegheny County’s Board of Health is set to vote Wednesday on proposed changes to Article VI — the main county code provision that governs the work of the Health Department in regulating housing.
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Local officials say first term Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro's proposal fell short on one of their top priorities: a key funding source for counties to provide mental health services.
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Pittsburgh-area officials gathered Friday to tout the success of Pennsylvania’s Whole-Home Repairs program and make the case for ongoing state funding for it.
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B is for Books looks at first glance like a regular children’s bookstore, but there’s something unique about this “store” — the books here are free.
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Local programs to help troubled tenants are largely unused by the McKeesport Housing Authority, which last year filed complaints against 1 in 4 tenants.