Donna Mitria News Today

We are experiencing an acute need for housing not just for U.S. citizens and longtime residents in the Boston area but also for new residents who are arriving.

One week after the state created a shelter waitlist, the number of homeless families with nowhere to go is growing. The increasingly desperate task of providing for these families has largely fallen to community groups.

Ruth Artica faces homelessness with her husband and four children in another month.