Our coalition members firmly support the Housing First Initiative and have worked diligently to provide and maintain units to help homeless adults get off the streets. Our homeless service providers have built and operate more than a thousand units to ensure that homeless individuals can find stability.

Pine Street Inn 850 units at 37 different sites in Boston and Brookline
Father Bill’s & MainSpring 360 units throughout Southeastern Massachusetts
Friends of the Homeless 110 single-room units in Greater Springfield
Boston Public Health Commission Housing First and Transitional Housing initiatives connect homeless adults to multiple options for finding homes. Since 2010, over 800 chronically homeless individuals have moved into permanent supportive housing with a retention rate that exceeds 90%.
St. Francis House 56 units as part of the Next Step Housing initiative
Project Place Gatehouse 14 studio-apartment units