Massachusetts shelter providers are urging lawmakers to increase funding for individual homeless provider programs and ...

St. Francis House leaders were worried the shelter was adding to people's stress instead of helping them. They hired an architect to make the space more calming and to make it guide people to critical ...

City officials and community leaders walked streets and shelters for the City of Boston’s 46th annual Homelessness Census on ...

Boston’s annual homelessness census is an important part of our work to better understand the needs of unsheltered Bostonians and to connect individuals to services,” said Mayor Michelle Wu. “At a ...

Carvell Curry, 62, had no known relatives. But he built community even as he faced a sometimes daily struggle to survive, loved ones said.

To an untrained eye, the “gross motor room” at the Edgerley Family Horizons Center in Boston looks like any other indoor gym for preschoolers. There are mats on the floor, large foam blocks, shapes ...

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IN TONIGHT’S FIVE FOR GOOD. IT WAS DURING THE MID 80S WHEN DUELING HEALTH CRISES STRUCK BOSTON’S BALLOONING HOMELESS POPULATION, TUBERCULOSIS AND THE AIDS EPIDEMIC. LITTLE DID DOCTOR JIM O’CONNELL ...

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Just hours after Boston’s Zoning Board of Appeals voted 6-1 to allow a new family shelter in West Roxbury last week, neighbors filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop it. The shelter, opening in a ...