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COVID taking toll on providers ability to help the homeless Eileen Qiu BOSTON Wintertime usually signals the holiday season filled with gifts, laughter and joy against a snowy background, but for over the 18,000 homeless people in Massachusetts, winter is a time of struggling to survive with new challenges brought by the pandemic. Data from the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless states there were around 3,000 families in the Massachusetts Emergency Assistance Shelter program in 2020. Shelters around the greater Boston area are trying their best to keep up with the demand for a safe and warm place. Michael Cochran is the director of the Cambridge Warming Center. First opened in April, the center serves around 30 people a day, about half of what the space used to hold before COVID, Cochran said. The beds are first-come, first-served, but they’ll do their best to accommodate all visitors and collaborate with other shelters around the area to find people ....
Eleanor Ho Boston University Statehouse Program BOSTON As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are concerned about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to the pandemic, and many are anticipating having to turn people away as outside conditions worsen. Estimates of the size of the Massachusetts homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though in previous years Boston has been able to accommodate almost its entire homeless population, organizations are struggling to allow guests to distance and still provide adequate shelter. ....
BOSTON – As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are raising concerns about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to the pandemic, and many are anticipating having to turn people away as outside conditions worsen. Estimates of the size of the Massachusetts homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though in previous years Boston has been able to accommodate almost its entire homeless population, organizations are struggling to allow guests to distance and still provide adequate shelter. State officials speculated in a recent report that homeless shelters around the state are short a few hundred beds, according to Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance President Joe Finn, leaving many communities scrambling to find space to spare. ....
Shelters lack space for homeless as winter arrives Tents set up by homeless under the bridge on the bike path in Northampton. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Published: 12/27/2020 11:08:47 PM BOSTON – As temperatures fall and positive coronavirus cases rise, advocates are raising concerns about homelessness in Massachusetts, where shelters remain at a reduced capacity due to the pandemic, and many are anticipating having to turn people away as outside conditions worsen. Estimates of the size of the state’s homeless population hovers around the 18,000 mark, according to estimates from a 2019 report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Though in previous years Boston has been able to accommodate almost its entire homeless population, organizations are struggling to allow guests to distance and still provide adequate shelter. ....
During a socially distant Christmas, shelters work to meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness By Felicia Gans Globe Staff,Updated December 25, 2020, 3:55 p.m. Email to a Friend Two men, who identified themselves as Manuel and Nick, ate a Christmas meal, separated by plexiglass dividers, at the St. Francis House in Boston on Friday.Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe On a normal Christmas Day, guests at St. Francis House on Boylston Street would gather tightly around decorated cafeteria tables and be served a Christmas feast restaurant-style by dozens of volunteers. The tables would be decorated with flowers and tablecloths. Some people would hug one another warmly as they sat down to eat. And the volunteers would smile widely at the guests they served â unmasked, of course. ....