homelessness

The City of Springfield is relaunching an extensive homeless outreach effort, along with new initiatives to connect the unsheltered with housing and to crack down on panhandling.

Efforts to support homeless veterans in Massachusetts are getting a boost from the Healey administration – part of a broader effort to solve the problem all together.

The Burlington, Vermont city council will consider an item tonight that includes authorizing a lease for a temporary winter warming shelter for the homeless.

As Albany County and city officials announce new programs to broaden mental health services and shelter the unhoused, people on the margins continue to face uncertainty.

With a statewide motel voucher program for homeless individuals ending in June, a resolution to update Burlington, Vermont’s camping policy on public land dominated the most recent city council meeting.

With a July deadline, the task force held its first meeting on Thursday night.

Tracy Kidders new book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People” shines a spotlight on Jim O’Connell, a Harvard-trained doctor who has spent 40 years caring for unhoused individuals in Boston, the “Rough Sleepers.” We talk with both Tracy Kidder and Dr. Jim O’Connell on this week’s Book Show.

Tracy Kidders new book, “Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People,” tells the story of Dr. Jim O’Connell – a man who invented ways to create a community of care for a city’s unhoused population – the “rough sleepers.”

The Winter Walk expands to western Massachusetts

After years of effort, a new 24/7 homeless shelter and navigation center will be located in the City of Saratoga Springs.