The addresses and owners of Section 8 housing properties are public records, the Commonwealth Court has ruled.

A split three-judge panel decided that a Pittsburgh television reporter was entitled to the property owners’ names and addresses, even though, as the Pittsburgh Housing Authority argued, such would allow him to search real estate records and figure out the names of the tenants receiving the low-income housing.

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