Two Massachusetts men were arrested for trafficking fentanyl and cocaine during a traffic stop on Interstate 95 in New Hampshire, state police said.

The Gillespie Center & Hoskins Place, which provide emergency shelter for men and women in Westport, was officially reopened ...

A $425 million bill would keep the state's emergency shelter system afloat while imposing a new cap on the number of families ...

The shelter of 45 small, one-room structures on state-owned land behind the Foxy Lady strip club has been in the works since 2020. Homelessness in Rhode Island has increased 66 percent over that time.

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration has spent nearly $500 million on the state-run shelter system in fiscal year 2025, ...

Reforms should entail two things: reasonable and humane limits on eligibility and the duration of shelter stays to manage the ...

VPI, a Boston-based nonprofit, specializes in addiction treatment services and housing provision for the city’s homeless ...

A sharply divided state House of Representatives approved a plan Thursday to pump another $425 million into the emergency shelter system while capping migrant stays and requiring expanded ...

The future of a Cape Cod psychiatric hospital and a Canton children’s rehab hospital remains in financial limbo as Massachusetts’ controversial emergency shelter system is poised to receive nearly ...

Individual homelessness levels are severely rising in Massachusetts, and service providers have received no growth in state assistance in two years.

Factors contributing to the rise in homelessness include lack of affordable housing, the end of COVID-era policies, and an ...