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In a children’s playroom, inside a family shelter, in an undisclosed neighborhood in Boston, a young mother comforts her nearly 1-year-old child. Through a...

As pressure mounts on the Commonwealth's shelter resources, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is expected to hold a news conference on Tuesday with an...

More than 5,500 households are in the state-run family shelter system, an all-time high. The rising number has been driven by an expensive housing market and an increase in newly arrived immigrants. The demand has strained the system.

Another nonprofit, Heading Home, raced to take over nearly a dozen of Casa Nueva Vida’s shelters and assume responsibility for the hundreds of residents, including dozens of children, who lived there.

The plan for 37 Wales Street The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday rejected a proposal by the non-profit Heading Home to replace a crumbling 10-unit apartment building at 37 Wales St. in Dorchester with 23 new apartments rented to families trying to get out of homelessness. Heading Home had planned a building with no parking spaces for residents. The current building has ten.  “Most clients don’t have cars,” Heading Home CEO Danielle Ferrier told the board. Residents would be “transiti...

Rendering of proposed, rejected Wales Street building. The Zoning Board of Appeal on Tuesday rejected a proposal by the non-profit Heading Home to replace a crumbling 10-unit apartment building at 37 Wales St. in Dorchester with 23 new apartments rented to families trying to get out of homelessness. Heading Home had proposed a building with no parking spaces for residents; the current building has ten. "Most clients dont have cars," Heading Home CEO Danielle Ferrier told the board. Residents wo...