According to the report, 119 adults were found unsheltered — staying on the street or in other places unfit for human habitation — during the February 2022 count. That represents a 30% drop from last year's census.
Jim Greene, assistant director for street homelessness initiatives in the Mayor's Office of Housing, attributed the drop to new initiatives to house people who were living in a large tent encampment near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, or"Mass. & Cass," and other areas.
Through 2021 and the beginning of 2022, according to Greene, those efforts led to 150 people being moved into permanent supportive housing and another 154 people being placed in so-called low-threshold housing; those are programs that provide support services to help residents address issues including substance use disorder and other mental health struggles while they are put on a path to permanent housing.
Despite the gains made in fighting homelessness among unaccompanied adults, homelessness among families increased 10% in Boston this year over last. At the point of the February census, 843 families — representing 2,798 people — were homeless in Boston. But all of them were in shelters or transitional housing programs, according to the city's report.
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