Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Despite these efforts, homelessness remains a major problem, according to shelter directors, who said that roughly 6,000 people are currently homeless in Boston...
...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...
Philip F. Mangano, a Boston native who directs the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness in Washington D.C., said that the shelter was notable for providing more than just “a blanket and a bowl of soup.” He said that it also implements programs that help people at the shelter get access to health services, jobs, and permanent housing...
...Shelter director Chiara Condi ’08 said that the resource advocates provide longer-term, more personal help than that provided by over-burdened state services...
...expand their services, the shelter is trying to arrange an endowment to be managed by the Harvard Management Company, according to one of the shelter’s directors, Eleanor R. Wilking ’09. The shelter currently receives the majority of its funding from the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance...