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Shearer spoke about his life-changing experience at the shelter at its 25th anniversary commemoration last night at the Institute of Politics...
When James Shearer arrived at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, he was without a job and living on the streets. But while living at the shelter, Shearer cofounded Spare Change News—one of the nation’s first street newspapers dedicated to benefit the homeless—and now 16 years later, he is president of the Homeless Empowerment Project...
...panel of local activists, including Massachusetts State Representative Alice K. Wolf and former representative Jarrett T. Barrios ’90-’91, praised the services that the shelter has provided to the community and debated solutions to homelessness at a national level...
...shelter is currently open from November to April each year and is manned by over 150 volunteers. It sleeps 24 each night and provides breakfast and dinner for many more in the homeless community...
...addition to being the only shelter in the country exclusively staffed by undergraduate volunteers, it is one of the most inexpensively-run shelters in Massachusetts, according to the shelter’s directors...