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 ...

As we approach Veterans Day, a day dedicated to thanking the men and women who protected and served our country, there is a special outreach team in Boston offering a helping hand to veterans who are ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

Hepatitis A cases have been confirmed among Boston homeless individuals, as city public health officials urge healthcare providers to “be vigilant” for signs of the highly contagious liver infection ...

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 ...