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Jun 133 min read

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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Get Involved to End Young Adult Homelessness

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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Addressing the Racial Wealth Gap in Homeownership

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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Beyond Finances: Poverty and Homelessness in America

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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Unveiling the Silent Crisis: HIV/AIDS and Health Disparities in Unhoused Communities

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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Youth Homelessness is Hiding in Plain Sight

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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Considering the Value in Goodbye: Social Work Relationship Endings

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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Aging Out of Foster Care ... What's Next?

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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Championing Social Justice through Social Work

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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Adopting a Racial Equity Lens to Address Homelessness

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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How the Justice System Reinforces the Homelessness Cycle Through Mass Incarceration

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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Youth Homelessness Awareness Month: Challenging Harmful Stereotypes With Lived Experiences

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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Hotels: A Congregate Shelter & Housing Shortage Solution?

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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Building Job Security: How Transitional Employment Facilitates Ending Young Adult Homelessness

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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