Aline Kaplan, who started giving Boston bus tours to cruise-ship passengers this fall, reports tourists keep asking her where Boston's homeless are, and that's gotten her to thinking.
By adamg - Wed, 11/13/2019 - 4:18pm
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By adamg - Mon, 01/01/2018 - 11:52am
In his inauguration speech today, Mayor Walsh announced a four-year, $10-million fundraising effort to build 200 units of "supportive, sustainable, long-term housing for chronically homeless men and women."
The fund has been launched in partnership with Pine Street Inn and Bank of America - which donated $250,000 to the effort.
By adamg - Wed, 11/04/2015 - 3:49pm
Erin Butcher, artistic director of Maiden Phoenix Theatre Company explains why performing in Somerville's Powder House Park means she will never do all-female outdoor performances again:
Vaguely, in the back of my head I must have known that a few homeless fellows would populate a public park in summer every now and then. But I really didn’t think much of it. I would be there every day anyway if there were any problems, and I had very rarely ever been approached by any homeless people in Somerville in my 4 years of living there… so it would be fine….
It was not fine. ...
By adamg - Thu, 06/25/2015 - 10:23am
The Globe reports on Mayor Walsh's plans for "an ambitious multimillion-dollar plan to end homelessness among veterans this year and to end chronic homelessness by 2018."
By SCATV Somerville - Sun, 08/03/2014 - 8:01pm
Somerville, MA, July 29 – “It was really hard to come back,†the veteran explained, quietly. “My whole family was telling me that I was someone different, someone that basically they didn’t recognize.
By JoshDawson - Fri, 09/12/2008 - 10:09am
Boston Ward 5 Democratic Committee Forum on Massachusetts Initiative to End Homelessness
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