
Brockton hotel being acquired by Father Bill’s and MainSpring.
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Written by MARK EMMONS Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
Brockton hotel being acquired by Father Bill’s and MainSpring.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS
Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic
Written by SUE REINERT Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS
A temporary homeless shelter opened Saturday night at the War Memorial Recreation Center in Mid-Cambridge—after two weeks before city councillors and a day late after a last-minute change requiring guests to test negative for COVID-19. Results from tests at the city’s warming center for the homeless Thursday did not arrive until Saturday afternoon.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS
City Council, Gov. Baker have the power to force universities—Harvard, MIT, and Lesley—and hotels to provide better alternatives
Written by DIG STAFF 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."
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
As television journalists reported that New England Patriots fans donated comforters for homeless people, transit cops disposed of every single blanket that the folks from Quincy C.O.P.E. and others handed out inside South Station.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Specials
“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.”
Written by BILL HAYDUKE Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
Earlier this year, DigBoston contributor Bill Hayduke visited the homeless shelter on Long Island for two nights in writing a feature about life there that continues to find thousands of new readers in Boston and beyond on a weekly basis. Since the reception has been so strong, we have asked him to continue following the story as the shelter has been closed, and as hundreds scramble for a warm place to stay this winter.