On Tuesday, Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato announced her ’500 in 500 Initiative’ has been a success. She says her administration has helped get more than 500 people off the streets and into housing in 500 days.
Andrea Johnson escaped an abusive situation and couldn’t afford monthly rent, so she was living out of a storage unit. Now she’s in a safe home, as part of the 500 in 500 program.
“It was so much stress lifted off of me,” Johnson said during the press conference. “Here it was actually meaningful and not only that – just feeling like a person.”…