homeless shelter

Rosie’s Place, the nation’s oldest women’s shelter, is taking extra steps to make sure they can keep the doors open amid the coronavirus pandemic — even with financial strains.

The race is on to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading further within the Portland, Maine, homeless community. Officials from the city, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Maine Department of Health and Human Services are trying to separate and house roughly 600 healthy, symptomatic and exposed people in its homeless population after a Massachusetts woman and…

Officials in Maine are trying to prevent the novel coronavirus from further spreading among the homeless population in Portland.

Rosie’s Place is a shelter for homeless and low income women in Boston. Its president and a former guest stopped by This Is New England to explain the many ways the shelter helps women in need get back on their feet.

Colton Bradford stops by thew newest

Urban Hound

location to learn how their new partnership with

St. Francis House

is helping homeless people transition into new careers.

The homeless shelters in New Hampshire’s Seacoast region passed capacity long before the recent snow and cold temperatures came in.  The Portsmouth Herald reported some shelters in the region have wait lists with an eight-month to two-year wait for income-based housing while others are housing people well above their capacity level.  Cross Roads House, an emergency transitional shelter in...