Dr. Jim O'Connell hardly ever saw people living in tents, let alone encampments of people sleeping on the streets, during the first three decades of his 40-year career treating Boston's homeless. The ...

Boston recorded a notable drop in homeless residents during an annual census of the population earlier this year, city officials announced Tuesday. The snapshot, collected on a single night in January ...

Just after midnight on Thursday, while hundreds of thousands of Bostonians slept in warm homes with solid roofs, a collection of city employees, social workers and other caring souls searched for ...

Hepatitis A cases have been confirmed among Boston homeless individuals, as city public health officials urge healthcare providers to “be vigilant” for signs of the highly contagious liver infection ...

The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, a pioneering nonprofit that has provided medical care to individuals and families for nearly 40 years, is cutting staff and services due to federal ...

They ventured into the moonlit streets just before midnight with clipboards and backpacks full of socks, mittens, and doses of a medication that can reverse drug overdoses. They walked down alleyways, ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston Healthcare for the Homeless teams were out in the city over the last few days as part of their mission to provide care to individuals who are living outdoors in the extreme heat ...

BOSTON (AP) – A homeless Boston man who police said turned in a backpack containing tens of thousands of dollars in cash and traveler’s checks said even if he were desperate he wouldn’t have kept ...

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