Description: Rents and numbers of homeless people rise inexorably. Massachusetts' attempts to provide shelter, subsidies and affordable housing are inadequate. Project Hope.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1988
Description: Dr. Jim O'Connell, director of Health Care for the Homeless, provides medical attention to shelter residents and people who live on the streets. Man with skin cancer on nose. Patients wait in clinic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/21/1990
Description: B&W VISUALS OF LONG ISLAND SHELTER FOR HOMELESS, STREET PEOPLE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/02/1984
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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/03/1990
Description: Marie Watson volunteers at Y family shelter. She teaches homeless mothers and children to knit and crochet. They learn patience, productivity and self- worth.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1989
Description: Former missile site in Topsfield becomes shelter as result of McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, enabling conversion of federal properties. Gov. Weld inaugurates shelter at ribbon cutting ceremony.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/14/1991
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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1990
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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1987
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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/16/1989
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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/09/1990