For people living on the margins in the cities, towns, and suburbs around Boston, the available housing subsidies are painfully inadequate—just like the public transportation and job opportunities
HOMELESS FOR THE HOLIDAYS: SAVAGE CUTS AND CRAPPY JOBS ARE WHAT GOT US HERE
There are three major structural problems out of the control of impoverished individuals that best explain the rise of homelessness in Massachusetts: savage cuts to our state mental health system, an economy that creates large numbers of bad low-wage jobs, and the destruction of affordable housing.
50 YEARS OF YEAST AND LOVE: AN ORAL HISTORY OF HALEY HOUSE
“First we saw that people were homeless and needed a place to stay. Then we saw that they were hungry and they needed food. Then we figured out that people needed permanent housing. And then jobs.”
SPECIAL FEATURE: LITTLE HOUSE EMISSARIES
From Martha’s Vineyard to Boston to Los Angeles, the small home movement struggles for acceptance at the end of the road
EXODUS IN EASTIE: IN MAVERICK SQUARE, A COMMUNITY CLINGS TO HOME
“They are the faces of the “displacement crisis.”
‘NO MORE THAN FOUR’ NO MORE
Focusing on overcrowding in this arguably discriminatory fashion hurts students who can hardly afford rent to begin with
BOSTON’S BESTEST ANNUAL GRATUITOUS SEASONAL PROTEST PIECE
With such precedents in mind, it’s important to keep watch as younger actions blossom, and as veteran activists find new direction.
CHINATOWN FAMILIES WEATHER HOUSING STORM
If you lived here, you’d be homeless by now.
REMEMBERING THE HOMELESS WHO PASSED, DOING RIGHT BY THOSE WHO SURVIVED
Regardless of some blessed future prospect, the temporary truth is that the closing of Long Island is a nightmare.
PICS: BOSTON’S HOMELESS RALLY FOR SOLUTION OUTSIDE CITY HALL, STATE HOUSE
As the weather cools, it’s more important than ever to keep up on the plight of Boston’s homeless, many of whom relied on services provided at the Long Island Shelter, which has now been closed for more than a month due to bridge infrastructure issues.
