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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...
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...
...relationship between Harvard and the community has its problems, and at the shelter, students and community members can interact and contribute together,” said Wolf...