homelessness

Boston has reached Mayor Michelle Wu’s clearing deadline for people living in tents at the homeless encampment known as Mass. and Cass, but dozens of people remain.

City of Boston work crews were at the homeless encampment known as Mass. and Cass Wednesday, the deadline for unhoused people to move out, tearing down tents as Mayor Michelle Wu visited to speak with residents. Wu had said this week that there were 62 people who still needed to be moved from the area near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea…

More than half of the people who’d been living in the homeless encampment along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard have left, but more than 60 remain.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Monday that the city has started to remove tents along Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard and dozens of unhoused people have been placed into housing. More than half of the people who’d been living in the homeless encampment have left, but more than 60 remain. “The encampments that we see and that some individuals…

An elementary school pupil from Plaistow is going to be the next “Kid Governor” in New Hampshire. Charlotte Cotti of Pollard Elementary School ran on a platform to address the problem of helping the homeless. She is scheduled to be inaugurated Monday and will serve a one-year term. “If we can change poverty and homelessness, we can change lives,” she…

The Covid pandemic caused a surge in housing costs and a rise in unemployment, leaving nearly 600,000 Americans unhoused in 2020.

A deluge of applications has forced some states to shut their federal rental assistance programs earlier than expected.

People living in tents at the Boston homeless encampment known as “Mass. and Cass” have just under a month to leave, as the city on Wednesday announced a deadline of Jan. 12 for the area to be cleared permanently. Boston city officials have been working to connect area residents with social services and new housing, calling the encampment near the…

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Monday outlined her plan for winter weather, which includes “transitional spaces” for people experiencing homelessness during the city’s ongoing public health crisis. At a news conference in the Boston Public Works yard Monday, Wu detailed 18 new pieces of equipment added to the city’s arsenal as well as resources available for people experiencing homelessness...

At least two of the three people who died in a fire in a condemned house in Bangor, Maine, had been moved with other homeless people from a riverfront encampment days before by city officials, a newspaper reported. Three people died and two people escaped the fire Sunday morning. Two of the dead had stayed at an encampment under an…

The Yawkey Foundation has donated $15 million to help Pine Street Inn in its fight to end homelessness in Boston on Tuesday. The donation is the largest single gift the organization has received in its over 50 years of work. “Pine Street Inn is beyond grateful for this transformational gift,” Lyndia Downie, president and executive director of the organization, said…

“When you have great losses in your life, you have great tragedy in your life, you may not be the same anymore. I don’t think the old Shirley that I was looking for will ever come back again. I’m not healed, but it’s allowed me to talk to people in my community who are broken just like me and let...

The Pine Street Inn provides a comprehensive range of services to nearly 2,000 homeless men and women each day.

A Superior Court judge is expected to decide Wednesday whether the City of Boston should stop evicting people from a homeless encampment in the area known as Mass. and Cass.

A Superior Court judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order stopping the City of Boston from evicting people from a homeless encampment in the area known as Mass. and Cass. The ACLU of Massachusetts filed the lawsuit against the city on behalf of three unhoused people to protect “the legal rights and safety” of those being evicted as part…

U.S. Coast Guard veteran John Janedy fell on hard times and was living in his truck, but now he has a kitchen to make meals, along with all of the other things many people take for granted like a roof, a bed, and heat. The 70-year-old has taken up residence at a 5-bedroom home on Cape Cod, along with...

Mayor-elect Michelle Wu has announced the appointment of a new cabinet-level senior advisor to lead Boston’s response to the public health crisis in the area known as Mass. and Cass. The mayor-elect announced her first three cabinet appointments Wednesday, including a new senior advisor to lead the city’s response to “urgent public health and housing challenges,” including the ongoing...

Our team spent three weeks talking to people at the encampments

We spent three weeks in the area of Mass. and Cass following the people that live there.

Encampments near Mass. and Cass are being cleared as part of outgoing Boston Mayor Kim Janey’s executive order, a first step in tackling a public health crisis that started with six tents and ballooned to almost 200 in less than six months. Our investigators spent weeks following people struggling on the streets. “What you see is what you get. Every…