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ICE raids have significant impacts on our homeless population, with additional concerns for those who are immigrants.

We'll be looking forward to applying in the next round!

Telehealth has made access to healthcare easier for some of our most vulnerable populations. For those looking for a space to meet, here are some suggestions:

1) Private rooms at libraries
2) Benches in public parks
3) Community centers
4) Cafes

#Advocacy #Boston #Telehealth #Health #homelessness

2026 MRVP Cookie Day

Wednesday, the Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants is hosting an advocacy event at the State House. Those who have experienced #homelessness and allies are welcome.

www.saveourhomes.org/2026_mrvp_co...

#Boston #housing

@chapadotorg.bsky.social
@bostonfdn.bsky.social
@endhomelessnessma.bsky.social

Housing First Under Threat: How Project 2025 Targets Homelessness Policy Housing First has spent decades working to prove that stable housing saves lives and money. The National Low Income Housing Coalition found through multiple studies that compared to traditional models...

Housing First has spent decades working to prove that stable housing saves lives and money. #Housing First programs decreased #homelessness by 88% and improved housing stability by 41%. Learn more here:

www.helprehumanize.org/post/housing...

@nlihc.org #Boston #Massachusetts

Students face exorbitant rents as they look for post-graduation housing. Simultaneously, residents are being displaced. Learn more about what students, and their future neighbors, are facing across the City of Boston...

At @northeasternu.bsky.social today? Stop by the Spring #Volunteer fair in the Curry Student Center. Find out more about how we #help #rehumanize our unsheltered neighbors in Greater #Boston. While you're at it, enter to win prizes from the organizing team!

#gohuskies #homeless #community #service

Davis Square confronts new normal with unprecedented surge in homelessness, drug use, and violence - The Boston Globe "Police are here all the time. People are overdosing. There’s needles all over the place," said a Somerville native.

#Somerville’s Davis Square has seen a surge in people out on the streets and in shelters.

Many have expressed deep empathy for those struggling, and feel there needs to be some accountability to give them the help they are in need of.

www.bostonglobe.com/.../davis-sq...

(via @bostonglobe.com)

H.H.S. Reverses Decision to Cut $2 Billion for Mental Health and Addiction Services

After an outrage from people around the nation, funding for mental health and substance use programs has been restored.

We celebrate this as a win, but we should be cautious of what this means for mental health programs and their future funding.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/h...

(via @nytimes.com)

‘Surprise and relief’ from homeless patients: ‘This works for me’ — Harvard Gazette Doctors report ‘fascinating and counterintuitive’ results delivering healthcare to hard-to-reach population via telehealth

Dr. Katherine Koh, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, recently published an article in JAMA International Medicine journal emphasizing the success of a new approach to accessible #health care for #homeless individuals.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

#Boston #HelpRehumanize

Every #volunteer that comes our way takes the time to fill out a brief survey to help us understand what is motivating them to spend their precious time and energy with us. Occasionally (and especially when things seem difficult) it helps to read them.

www.facebook.com/therehumaniz...

TRP's Winter Reading List If you want to understand homelessness, poverty, and housing injustice beyond headlines and stereotypes, start here. Books by those with lived experience. Books by those who have loved ones living it....

Looking to better understand homelessness, poverty, and housing injustice beyond headlines and stereotypes, start here. Books by those with lived experience. Books by those who have loved ones living it. Books by those in the trenches for years or decades.

www.helprehumanize.org/post/trp-s-w...

Our first grant at @helprehumanize.bsky.social !

Our intern Emma is building a student-focused guide to local orgs that accept donations, offer flexible volunteer options, and make big change from small acts!

If you’re an area student, group, or organization fighting homelessness or food insecurity, connect!

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Time to bring it in, team!

Partnership Development: A Critical Pursuit for ALL Leaders The Nonprofit Quarterly recently published Rethinking Nonprofit Survival: Why Partnership Is the New Leadership, as we enter a time of deep division and a need to better leverage what we have, while w...

#Nonprofits can’t go it alone anymore.
Partnerships, side hustles, and fractional leadership are reshaping how we serve our communities.

In Massachusetts, that shift could make the difference between housing stability and homelessness.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/partne...

#INProud2Lead #Massachusetts

Anyone listening to the wind?

The State police have roadblocks up at Logan airport.

Newsom, doing some pretty grade A trolling:

#SNAP and #Medicaid reductions are coming. The national and local repercussions on #hunger and #housing could be significant and dire:

Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97 Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.

He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task.

www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...

Make sure you stay through to the end...

Did you know to afford a two-bedroom apartment in #Malden requires an hourly income above $50/hour?

A map of the smoke from wildfires, showing a forecast of continuing smoke cover for the foreseeable future.

Smoky skies for the rest of the week... at least.

#Bummer.

#Boston #weather #fire #smoke #air #health

"That other #dog will never see me now..."

Shakespeare in the pahk.

#Boston

This recent executive order makes it clear: without a #home, you are a criminal.

You can't spell "galaxy" without "gay." And "lax" also, I guess.

I signed up to be a Big Brother with Big Brothers, Big Sisters a few months ago. So far we have: Visited @gillettestadium.bsky.social to watch the @nerevolution.bsky.social, almost touched the Citgo sign, visited @tdgarden.bsky.social (thanks Dr. Dre!), and will be visiting @fenwaypark.bsky.social.

Housing First isn’t just a policy, it’s the cornerstone of an ethical, effective hashtag#homelessness response. Disinvestment unravels years of progress and leaves many without a path forward.

#HousingFirst #homeless #HousingFirst