As you’re traveling to visit friends or family, or preparing for guests to descend upon your home for the holidays, you might be asking yourself, “What on earth are we going to talk about at the dinner table?” Why not talk about MHSA and the amazing work MHSA has done to address homelessness in Massachusetts?…
By Joe Finn, MHSA President & Executive Director Twelve years ago, I had the opportunity to visit Israel as a part of the Boston-Haifa Connection sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. I met with municipal workers dealing with an emerging homeless street population on the streets of Haifa and visited the…
Today, MHSA and United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley (UWMB) release a report and executive summary detailing the importance and impact of funding received for Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) COVID-19 Relief. During the pandemic, tenants in PSH settings were at greater risk of becoming infected due to their complex health conditions and faced…
MHSA Member Agency Pine Street Inn is seeking qualified candidates for the positions of Deputy Director and Chief of Operations & Social Enterprise. Pine Street Inn, a nationally recognized nonprofit that provides a full spectrum of homeless services and is dedicated to ending homelessness in the Boston area, seeks both a Deputy Director and a…
By Joe Finn, MHSA President & Executive Director On June 6th of each year, the Anniversary of D-Day, the invasion of Normandy, I like to raise the American flag outside my house. I also often like to put out a sign of the blue and gray insignia patch of the 29th Infantry Division that…
