Boston has the nation’s second-highest rate of homelessness among major cities, according to a new report from Boston Indicators. But the report also found that the city has done an exemplary job of providing shelter.
“After a dip around the pandemic. [Homelessness] spiked again in 2023,” said Luc Schuster, the executive director of Boston Indicators. “And yet among comparable U.S. cities, we also have the eighth lowest rate of unsheltered homelessness.”
Schuster said Massachusetts’ right to shelter law and places like Pine Street Inn, which offer a range of services in addition to shelter, make the region stand out for its support of homeless people.
But he added that while those supports are valuable to families and individuals in the short term, they do not address the central cause of homelessness in Greater Boston: a lack of affordable housing.
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