Community and Economic Stability

Each year, DHS chooses several Strategic Initiatives: bold, transformative efforts designed to improve the effectiveness of human services for everyone. During 2024, DHS and its partners made significant progress by focusing on a set of Initiatives and in 2024 (see Accomplishments Report). And in 2025, it is working on 12 new Strategic Initiatives (see 2025 Strategic Initiatives Report).

DHS sends text messages to county residents to increase awareness of services, provide reminders, and to gather feedback.

Pittsburgh-Allegheny County is one of eight sites participating in the Community Choice Demonstration (CCD) – a large-scale, multi-site randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of offering housing mobility-related services […]

This updated 2024 Needs Assessment explores the needs of people living in poverty, barriers to living-wage employment, and challenges to achieving stability and economic security.

This report presents a mixed-methods approach to evaluating the impact of DHS cash assistance program, including longitudinal surveying, a quasi-experimental analysis of administrative data, and semi-structured interviews with cash recipients.

This dashboard reports on application statistics and participant demographics for the Allegheny Go program, a transportation assistance program.

Updated with 2022 data. The Allegheny County Need Index was developed to identify areas of the County that have greater relative need. This report and related materials explore census tracts in need and recent trends.

The Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) partnered with Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) to launch a new transportation assistance program in November 2022 called the Discounted Fares Pilot. This […]

This report highlights the 2023 DHS accomplishments that stood out. There are many, many other achievements. We chose the ones that made the biggest difference.

In its responsibility for administering publicly-funded human services, Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) plans for the allocation of more than $1B in areas that span behavioral health, children […]

The Latinx population in Allegheny County grew 80% between 2010 and 2020. This most recent community assessment report found several clear themes and opportunities for better serving the Latinx community.

Analysis of employment and earnings of people who rely on the public services of Allegheny County’s Department of Human Services.

This dashboard shows changes to key DHS and other county indicators since the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic.

Since financial stability is an important part of people’s ability to live healthy and independent lives, Allegheny County Department of Human Services (DHS) wanted to learn more about the work […]