Homelessness

New Initiative Targets Homelessness Among Veterans

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-01-27 14:08

New Initiative Targets Homelessness Among Veterans

Noelle Swan

At 60 years old, Art Griffin is about to graduate from UMass Boston with a bachelor’s degree in social psychology. His eyes brighten when he talks about his post-graduation plans. “I want to work with veterans,” he says. The slight tremor in his hands briefly calms as he tilts his chin with a hint of pride. “That’s like a dream to me.”

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The Death of a Homeless Man

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-01-13 01:55

Peter Osgood
Spare Change News

About 13 years ago I had reason to go to Boston's Back Bay on a regular basis in the morning. For one thing, I could find good coffee and a bagel to start my day. I have done that pretty much daily ever since.

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Helping the Homeless Weather The Cold

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-01-13 00:50

By Jim Greene
Emergency Shelter Commission, Boston Public Health Commission

In this season of extreme cold weather and wind chills in the single digits, it is more important than ever that everyone remains vigilant to help the most vulnerable among us. Hypothermia and frost-bite set in extremely quickly at sub-freezing temperatures, and homeless people are at greater risk than the average person with less complicated health needs.

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Meet the New Year, Same as the Old Year?

Submitted by Tom Benner on Thu, 2012-01-12 22:54

Tom Benner
Spare Change News

The year 2011 marked a new turn in the fight against homelessness in Massachusetts. HomeBASE, a new state initiative designed to steer homeless families from shelters and motels into homes of their own, went into effect on Aug. 1. The promising program sought to move the homeless into permanent housing, and to help those at risk of homelessness to remain in their homes.

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PATRICK-MURRAY ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES 21% DECREASE IN VETERAN HOMELESSNESS

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-01-06 01:17

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

BOSTON – Thursday, January 5, 2012 – The Patrick Murray Administration today joined officials from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness to announce a new report showing homelessness among veterans in Massachusetts has dropped 21 percent since January 2011, nearly twice the rate of reduction nationally. The Administration today also launched a new federally funded pilot program that will serve 50 chronically homeless veterans in the Boston Metro area.

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A talk with Dennis Culhane A National Expert on Housing Issues

Submitted by Chalkey Horenstein on Fri, 2011-12-30 00:31

Chalkey Horenstein: Let’s start with some background information. What kind of work have you done to research homelessness and the ways to prevent it?

Dennis Culhane: Among other things, I worked as a consultant to the state of Massachusetts for four years -- the last year of the Romney administration and first three years of the Patrick administration -- the purpose of which was to do research in support of reform of the [Emergency Assistance] (EA) program. I published a couple studies that looked at that, and I helped them to strategize and think about how to reorganize the EA program.

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More ex-soldiers At Risk of Homelessness

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2011-12-05 16:46

Sarah Edmonds
Street News service

Tens of thousands of Western troops will leave Iraq and Afghanistan and make the journey home over the next couple of years. Those who then leave the military will face an even more perilous journey – the road back into civilian society, where weak economic growth has made it increasingly difficult to get work.

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With Winter On The Way, Where Do Homeless Families Go?

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2011-11-26 14:09

Hannah Morgan
Street News Service

With cold weather quickly approaching, the District of Columbia has yet to identify enough overnight shelters to house the number of homeless families who are expected to need beds.

Each year the city’s Interagency Council on Homelessness prepares an official Winter Plan which lays out how local human services agencies and organizations will meet their obligations under district law to protect homeless men, women and children from life-threatening conditions.

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Following Harvard, a Student-Run Shelter Opens

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2011-10-06 18:52

By Kevin Roberts

Harvard's student-run shelter was profiled in the 2010 book Shelter: Where Harvard Meets Homeless, by Scott Seider. Based on this book, a group of Villanova students are opening a new housing project in Philadelphia — one run almost entirely by local college students, and driven by the activism and energy of young people trying to make a difference.

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How social media empowers the homeless

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2011-09-23 00:15

Gary aka John Doe
Spare Change News

Coming to a realization, such as the fact that you're going to be homeless in a couple of weeks, one tends to start to scratch and claw in misguided desperation, for anything that will soften the blow.

For me, there was a therapeutic connection to writing, so I started a blog and began documenting what I was feeling and experiencing. Once it was up and in place, I figured I'd want to share it with the world.

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