The True Cost of Criminalizing Homelessness: Johnson v. Grants Pass and Its Social Impacts
On any given night, more than 600,000 Americans experience homelessness according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban...
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Hannah Hines
Apr 183 min read
Get Involved to End Young Adult Homelessness
REFA staff and members volunteering with Breaktime for a supply drive in 2023. Across the country, local nonprofit organizations are able...
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Breaktime
Mar 142 min read
National Social Work Month
National Social Work Month is honored every March in an effort to celebrate the social work profession. The National Association of...
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Phil Mason
Feb 293 min read
Addressing the Racial Wealth Gap in Homeownership
In recent years, discussions surrounding racial inequality in homeownership have become increasingly prevalent. Stories like my mother's,...
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Jacob Landau
Jan 113 min read
Beyond Finances: Poverty and Homelessness in America
$30,000 is enough money to pay rent for the median Boston apartment for less than a year. It’s also the set poverty line for a family of...
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Ryleigh Vaughan
Dec 14, 20234 min read
Unveiling the Silent Crisis: HIV/AIDS and Health Disparities in Unhoused Communities
December is HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, which means communities across the world are joining to broadcast the current state of the...
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Shiloh Fletcher
Nov 16, 20235 min read
Fathoming Transgender
As someone who has now been out as transgender for almost ten years, it is necessary for my well-being to not become embittered and...
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Jimena Chavez
Nov 9, 20233 min read
Youth Homelessness is Hiding in Plain Sight
When you think of homelessness, what images come to mind? Do you envision someone on the street asking for support? Do you imagine adults...
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Mari Brooks
Sep 6, 20233 min read
Op-Ed: My Journey with Homelessness
When I first became “homeless,” I was 16 years old, and it was because I was having a lot of issues at home. The situation was very...
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Sloane Seaman
Aug 3, 20234 min read
Considering the Value in Goodbye: Social Work Relationship Endings
Anthony, Breaktime Associate, and Natasha Adeyemi, Community Outreach Director I am one small chapter in the lives of the Associates I...
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Farrah Ridoré and Aashish Palikhey
Jul 11, 20233 min read
Fighting for What’s Right
The importance of policy work in breaking the cycle of young adult homelessness If there’s one thing that affects every aspect of our...
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Connor Schoen
Jun 1, 20232 min read
My Journey with Pride
I cannot imagine how my younger, closeted self would have reacted to an eight-foot-tall portrait of me draped in a rainbow flag. Terror,...
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Giullia Caldeira
May 3, 20233 min read
Homelessness and its Psychological Toll
It does not come as a surprise to most that mental health conditions impact one’s whole life. To those who do not have proper access to...
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Jimena Chavez
May 1, 20236 min read
Aging Out of Foster Care ... What's Next?
As of June 2022, it was estimated there were over 391,000 children and youth in the American foster care system. Foster Care Awareness...
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Jacob Landau
Mar 2, 20235 min read
Championing Social Justice through Social Work
“What really drove my passion in social work school was the links that I found between the child welfare system, the residential facility...
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Jimena Chavez
Feb 1, 20234 min read
Adopting a Racial Equity Lens to Address Homelessness
The increase in rates of homelessness in the past four years has proven that homelessness is not only a social or economic issue, but one...
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Giullia Caldeira
Jan 12, 20233 min read
How the Justice System Reinforces the Homelessness Cycle Through Mass Incarceration
The United States population is approximately 330 million people, representing 5% of the world’s occupants. However, the so-called Land...
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Sam Goodman
Nov 10, 20224 min read
Youth Homelessness Awareness Month: Challenging Harmful Stereotypes With Lived Experiences
When you think of homelessness, what comes to mind? Many think of people sleeping on the street, or individuals walking by cars asking...
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April Tate
Oct 26, 20227 min read
Hotels: A Congregate Shelter & Housing Shortage Solution?
Housing Shortage in Boston & Beyond In 2022, Boston was ranked fourth in cities facing the worst housing shortages and fourteenth in a...
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Jacob Landau
Aug 25, 20223 min read
Building Job Security: How Transitional Employment Facilitates Ending Young Adult Homelessness
“More often than not, homeless people become homeless through circumstances that they can’t control…we’re so attached to the idea that it...
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