Pittsburgh launches website to help residents navigate housing issues

Pittsburgh residents can find housing assistance through a new website provided by the city that went live on Thursday.

The Housing Assistance Resource Portal helps users find programs to help with such things as affordable housing, mortgage assistance, homelessness and housing discrimination.

Users are asked a series of questions that guide them to housing-related resources. The site is designed for all income brackets.

“Housing, especially affordable housing, will always be a premier issue of my administration and staff as long as there are city of Pittsburgh residents who are impacted by housing concerns,” Mayor Bill Peduto said in a statement. “Housing is a human right.”

Pittsburgh is providing the site in partnership with the Urban Redevelopment Authority and Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh.