Day: March 12, 2024

Fetterman, Casey, Lee Announce $2 Million for Pittsburgh’s Penn Avenue Cap Connector Project

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators John Fetterman and Bob Casey, and Representative Summer Lee announced that Allegheny County will receive $2 million through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Reconnecting Communities Pilot (RCP) grant program. The funding will support the Penn Avenue Cap Connector Project. The Penn Avenue Cap Connector Project aims to connect economically-disadvantaged communities in Pittsburgh to public transit, grocery stores, services, and jobs. Specifically, the project will make the

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At Hearing, Fetterman Speaks to PA’s Housing Crisis & How His Whole-Home Repairs Act Will Help Address It

Fetterman illustrated the magnitude of PA’s housing crisis with stats out of Centre, Pike, Indiana, Montour, Lehigh, Franklin, Allegheny, and Dauphin Counties WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator John Fetterman spoke at the Senate Banking Housing and Urban Development Committee hearing about his recently introduced Whole-Home Repairs Act. The bipartisan bill—which Senator Fetterman introduced last week with Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)—would create a national five-year pilot program to expand on a wildly successful and popular

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