Allegheny Housing Stabilization Collaborative

"AHSC"

In Allegheny County, more than 14,000 evictions are filed each year. In Pennsylvania, one in three people experiencing homelessness cite eviction as the event that pushed them into housing instability. Even when eviction doesn’t lead to homelessness, it causes deep disruption—for tenants, landlords, and entire communities.

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Evictions derail children’s education, harm physical and mental health, and make it much harder for families to find safe, stable housing in the future. For landlords, each eviction can cost around $3,000 - $6,000 in lost rent, repairs, and vacancy. For governments, preventing eviction costs 80% less than the cost to rehouse someone experiencing homelessness ($4,000 compared to $20,000)! And none of this accounts for the long-term toll on neighborhoods already facing systemic disinvestment.
 

The Allegheny Housing Stabilization Collaborative (AHSC) was created in response to the COVID-19 crisis, which exposed how little eviction prevention infrastructure existed. It took more than a year to build a rental assistance system that could meet the need.

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Launched in March 2021, AHSC brought together ACTION-Housing, RentHelpPGH, Just Mediation Pittsburgh, Neighborhood Legal Services, Community Justice Project, and Pittsburgh Hispanic Development Corporation to offer a coordinated approach—combining rental assistance, legal support, mediation, outreach, and navigation. Together, these partners work to keep families housed and communities stable.