While homelessness remains an enormous challenge in Massachusetts, we have developed very effective strategies for addressing unsheltered homelessness for individuals.
Lyndia Downie
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Amid shelter crisis, don’t forget about individual homelessness
Demand for shelter for adults without children over the past year has soared. On average, our shelters have seen a 24 percent increase. On top of our state’s housing crisis, we face a youth mental health emergency, a large aging population, opioid addiction, and health disparities at an all-time high.
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Spikes are not a solution to homelessness
SPIKES INSTALLED under a bridge send a clear message to those who have no home that they are not wanted. Spikes are not a solution, serving only to drive vulnerable […]
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How to solve homelessness
TONIGHT, 6,300 MEN and women across the Commonwealth will sleep on the streets or in shelter. Although that statistic may be disheartening, this does not have to be the case. […]
Posted inEconomy, Health Care, Opinion
Doing more for homeless people in Massachusetts
THE FOUNDING OF the Massachusetts Bay Colony was grounded in the social contract. In a sermon delivered in 1630, Gov. John Winthrop articulated the belief that, “[W]e must… make other’s […]