MHSA President & Executive Director Joe Finn reflects on the Walsh administration’s progress toward ending homelessness in the City of Boston in a letter to the editor in The Boston Globe. Read “Boston is moving closer to ending homelessness.”
Today’s blog post features “TAKING THE HOMELESS CENSUS,” a poem by Alexis Ivy Grandberg, Street Outreach Advocate at CASPAR. TAKING THE HOMELESS CENSUS The corner of the laundromat is occupied by the ex-con with an exhausting past. He uses missing socks as mittens, trades socks for cigarettes. Homeless: sitting-on-a-milk-crate homeless, facial-hair-unkempt homeless, publically-collecting-cans homeless, boozing-at-the-duck-pond homeless, asking-for-the-time…