Dr. Jim O'Connell hardly ever saw people living in tents, let alone encampments of people sleeping on the streets, during the first three decades of his 40-year career treating Boston's homeless. The ...

Boston recorded a notable drop in homeless residents during an annual census of the population earlier this year, city officials announced Tuesday. The snapshot, collected on a single night in January ...

Just after midnight on Thursday, while hundreds of thousands of Bostonians slept in warm homes with solid roofs, a collection of city employees, social workers and other caring souls searched for ...

Massachusetts’ housing crisis is a major contributor to homelessness in Greater Boston, where people relying on shelters or living on the streets surged dramatically in 2023, a new report found. The ...

The City of Boston is calling on residents and businesses to donate new winter coats for individuals experiencing homelessness as temperatures begin to drop. The annual drive, organized by the Boston ...

It's almost midnight. The streets of downtown Boston are quiet. A team of about two dozen city officials and nonprofit leaders, including Mayor Michelle Wu, sets out from City Hall toward Downtown ...

They ventured into the moonlit streets just before midnight with clipboards and backpacks full of socks, mittens, and doses of a medication that can reverse drug overdoses. They walked down alleyways, ...

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Just a few miles from the ivory halls of Harvard College and blocks from some of the most expensive real estate in the country is a deplorable out-in-the-open encampment of wandering drug users, a ...

BOSTON (AP) – A homeless Boston man who police said turned in a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and traveler’s checks said even if he were desperate he wouldn’t have kept ...

Boston recorded a notable drop in homeless residents during an annual census of the population earlier this year, city officials announced Tuesday. Boston recorded a notable drop in homeless residents ...