Description: Shelter operators sue Mental Health Department to take responsibility for mentally ill homeless people. Ray Flynn, Richard Ring, Henry Tomes. Homeless people lie near heat vent outside BPL, line up for food.
Description: Homeless people evicted from tent city on MIT property want to be beneficiaries of development on that site in form of affordable housing units (more than are planned). “No trespassing” sign.
Description: What will Michael Dukakis come home to in Mass. after the presidential election? - increase in AIDS cases, homelessness, overcrowded prisons, high dropout rate in high schools, budget deficit.
Description: The day after Mitch Snyder's death, Pine Street Inn director Richard Ring talks about Snyder's advocacy on behalf of homeless people. File of homeless.
Description: Demand for homeless shelter exceeds supply despite recently added emergency beds at Armory and expanded Pine Street Inn. Ray Flynn, Ed Koch. NYC starts involuntary hospitalization of street people.
Description: As last resort, state places homeless families in hotels and motels at great expense because conventional shelters are full. Milner Hotel. Motel exteriors. Boy playing with Legos.
Description: Urban mayors gather in Boston for National League of Cities conference. They focus on need for housing assistance and problem of homelessness. Ray Flynn, Tom Bradley, Henry Cisneros, William Hudnut III.
Description: Film director Oliver Stone and Sen. John Kerry visit Boston veterans' shelter. File of homeless men on bench, in doorway, in group on street. Clip from "Platoon." PSA for shelter. 2 vets refurbishing room.