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DESPITE EFFECTIVE SHORT-TERM MEASURES, LONG-TERM HOMELESSNESS PERSISTS IN MASS

Written by CHRIS HUES Posted January 28, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Despite effective short-term measures, long-term homelessness persists in Mass.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, coronavirus, COVID, homelessness, Housing, Pandemic Democracy Project

VIDEO: MASS VACCINES ADMINISTERED TO MOST VULNERABLE AROUND GREATER BOSTON

Written by JORDAN FRIAS Posted January 24, 2021 Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“I’m not afraid, whatever happens happens,” Thomas said. “That’s just the way it is.”

Filed Under: COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: COVID-19, homelessness, Housing, news, news to us, Pandemic Democracy Project, vaccinations, Video

IT’S HARDER THAN EVER TO FIND A BATHROOM IN BOSTON. WHAT’S THE CITY DOING ABOUT IT?

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted January 14, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“They refuse to respond to this humanitarian crisis where people really need them. We’re just ignoring this problem and it’s getting worse and worse.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, homelessness, Housing, news, news to us, Pandemic Democracy Project

THE CRISIS CONTINUES: ABOUT THAT RAGING OPIOID EPIDEMIC

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted December 2, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The data shows that fewer people are overdosing on heroin, but ODs related to prescription opioids continue to rise.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: homelessness, opioids, overdose deaths, rehabilitation centers

POWER, FREEDOM, EQUALITY, SAFETY, DIGNITY

Written by ADAM SENNOTT Posted December 4, 2019 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“It guarantees housing for survivors of crime and, again, it decriminalizes homelessness, which we know eliminates reinceration for individuals who failed to secure housing.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Ayanna Pressley, Boston, Congress, homelessness, People’s Justice Guarantee, social justice

DON’T FORGET TO PICK UP SPARE CHANGE NEWS THIS SEASON (AND ALWAYS)

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted October 9, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm

'This is who we are, these are our stories, and nobody is going to act like we have no voice around here.'

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm Tagged With: homelessness, Housing, media, Spare Change News

NO FINISH LINE IN SIGHT: 21ST ANNUAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON TO BROADCAST FROM CAMBRIDGE

Written by Posted July 16, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We said we’re going to do this the same way the British had to get their troops out of Dunkirk,” the radio host said. “It was an immediate need. They were going to die and homeless people are dying.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Cambridge, gentrification, HCWW, Health Care Without Walls, Homeless, homelessness, Housing, SOMERVILLE

HALEY HOUSE TO SUSPEND CAFE OPERATIONS, PLANS TO REVIEW CONCEPT AND REOPEN LATER THIS YEAR

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 11, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"While the Cafe’s restaurant operations are paused, our catering and wholesale baking operations will continue, as well as our Take Back the Kitchen Program."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: anniversary, bakery, Bing Broderick, Boston, Catholic Workers, Dudley Square, Haley House, history, homelessness, Housing, John McKenna, Kathe McKenna, Roxbury, Shelter, south end, throwback, training programs, Vietnam

BREAK THE CYCLE

Written by CHRIS HUGHES-ZIMMERMAN Posted November 11, 2018 Filed Under: Eats, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“There [are] unfortunately huge, discriminatory barriers that we can’t completely destroy on our own ... That takes a huge cultural movement."

Filed Under: Eats, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Breaktime, Cambridge, harvard, Homeless, homelessness, Massachusetts

GREENFIELD BLUES: HOMELESSNESS IS NOT JUST A BIG-CITY PROBLEM IN MASS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 7, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie

 

We don’t get much news about Western Mass in Boston. And since the population is relatively small in the largely rural western counties of the Commonwealth, it can be easy to miss significant stories. Because the scale of noteworthy happenings is naturally smaller ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Townie Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, economy, encampment, Greenfield, Health, Healthcare, Homeless, homelessness, Housing, Jason Pramas, jobs, Mayor William Martin, news, opiates, policy, Politics, poor, poverty, public, Western Massachusetts

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