As Greater Boston Housing Costs Soar, Advocates Confront Tent Bans, Sweeps, And Cuts
Catching up with Warm Up Boston about tent sweeps, shelter limits, drug dangers, and the criminalization of people living on streets
Opinion: Rethinking Affordability—It’s Not Just ‘More Housing’
“… if we reduce the affordability requirements, we risk ending up with less housing that everyday people can afford.”
Opinion: The Soul Of The Community Is Its People
And the people need more roofs over their heads
Opinion: Who Plans The City—And For Whom?
“The assumption that community involvement is a barrier to housing is simply false.”
APPARENT HORIZON: NO SURPRISE MASSACHUSETTS HAS A HOUSING CRISIS
Just look at what happened to the former East Cambridge courthouse property (now “40 Thorndike”) …
50 YEARS OF HOMELESS ADVOCACY IN CAMBRIDGE
An interview with First Church Shelter Director Jim Stewart
UNHOUSED STUDENTS
“The instability of housing for families often creates anxiety and a sense of uncertainty.”
RUNNING A SHELTER, BUT VYING FOR PERMANENT HOUSING
“We’re very under-stocked with housing opportunities. Since we had 52 people in the shelter, getting housing for only 12 of them means that there were a lot left out. So we’re in desperate need of additional housing.”
THE WAITING GAME
He’s been to shelters, he has a case worker, doctors will help him—but how much longer can he wait? Meet Billy, one of the many sources informing “Cambridge Unhoused,” who sells Spare Change News in Central Square
IN MASS, A LACK OF COORDINATION HAMPERS EFFORTS TO HELP THE UNHOUSED
“We don’t have a network of communication between the communities, so it’s very easy for people to slip through the cracks, which is not good for them.”
