Word: homelessness
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That means a call from Au Bon Pain alerts a different agency than a call from a storefront a few feet down the block. And as a result, no centralized force exists to identify cases of homeless need and to ensure that individuals have access to the help they need...
Maher notes that Cambridge, particularly Harvard and Central Squares, has a large population of homeless individuals compared to the rest of the Boston area...
...says this does not mean that struggling individuals receive less support in Cambridge than elsewhere—although local activists agree that demand for homeless services far outweighs supply in the Boston area...
Ameliorating the situation for local homeless individuals will require effort outside an expansion of shelter facilities, according to Maher...
Combined with unusually high real estate costs in Cambridge, a “very poor social safety support network” and frequent instances of domestic violence, Kuo says, the budget cuts have left few venues available to homeless individuals...