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A NEW PLACE FOR MORE PEOPLE TO CALL HOME IN TOUGH TIMES

Written by MARK EMMONS Posted March 16, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Brockton hotel being acquired by Father Bill’s and MainSpring.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Brockton House, Homeless, Shelter

HARVARD AND MIT MUST HELP THEIR WORKERS AND AREA HOMELESS NOW

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 22, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Cambridge, Column, contractor, coronavirus, COVID-19, criticism, Democracy, economy, employee, endowment, Harvard University, higher education, Homeless, Jason Pramas, L. Rafael Reif, labor, Larry Bacow, layoff, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, news analysis, pandemic, power, public, Shelter, slider, student, wealth, worker

CAMBRIDGE TEMPORARY HOMELESS SHELTER OPENS DAY LATE AFTER TESTING MANDATE

Written by SUE REINERT Posted April 20, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

People in hazmat suits cross Friday to a temporary homeless shelter set up by the city at the War Memorial Recreation Center in Mid-Cambridge.

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.

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Cambridge, Cambridge Day, coronavirus, COVID-19, Homeless, Massachusetts, news, Politics, Shelter, slider

CAMBRIDGE PLAN TO WAREHOUSE HOMELESS COULD SPARK COVID OUTBREAK

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 10, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

A Dorm on Harvard Yard. Photo by greger.ravik.

City Council, Gov. Baker have the power to force universities—Harvard, MIT, and Lesley—and hotels to provide better alternatives

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Cambridge, Cambridge MA, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, epidemic, Harvard University, Health, Homeless, Housing, Jason Pramas, Lesley University, Massachusetts, MIT, policy, Politics, public health, Shelter, slider, suffolk university

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

THE TERMINAL: SOUTH STATION IS A HOMELESS SHELTER WITH NO SERVICES

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 7, 2018 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.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston Public Health Commission, homelessness, Housing, Long Island, mayor Marty Walsh, Pine Street Inn, Quincy C.O.P.E., Shelter, Shelters, snow, South Station

50 YEARS OF YEAST AND LOVE: AN ORAL HISTORY OF HALEY HOUSE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 23, 2016 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.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Specials 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

“I THINK WE DESERVE MORE THAN A WAREHOUSE BECAUSE WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS”

Written by BILL HAYDUKE Posted November 14, 2014 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.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bill hayduke, Blackstone, Boston, bridge, drug addiction services, Homeless, Long Island, mayor Marty Walsh, opiates, Shelter

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