Agencies Come Together to Solve Downtown Homeless Shelter Concerns

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – In the summer, downtown’s homeless and the destitute often sleep in doorways in the open air. But as the temperature drops, the concern rises.For more than four decades, they’ve found warmth, shelter and a place to sleep at Smithfield United Christian Church.This year, however, the city and county just couldn’t ignore a number of fire suppression and access problems at the old church’s shelter — which would house 100 men and 25 women on any