Introducing Cambridge Unhoused Why are we blanketing one Massachusetts city in particular with focused housing crisis coverage this winter? By Chris Faraone, BINJ Editorial Director Almost everything we cover at the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism ends in homelessness. Environmental injustice. Prison, re-entry, parole. The opioid epidemic. Institutional racism. The affordable housing crisis. When society […]
UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS
A conversation with photographer and social worker Eva Rachel Tine “It’s a series based in hope and joy and what happens when you give people the opportunity to stabilize, heal, and thrive.” Homelessness in Cambridge is a manageable problem, but it’s also one that requires local and state governments, advocacy groups, and many more competing […]
RECOGNITION FOR RELIGION REPORTING
The kind of deep read that gets people and communities talking while winning awards in the process Congratulations to Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada and Claire Sadar on their receiving an honorable mention in the Associated Church Press Best of the Church Press Awards for the first two installments of their Sacred Writes series on “Greater Boston’s Church […]
SACRED SPACES: SPECIAL MOSQUE EDITION
Photo of Nigerian Islamic Society of Massachusetts by Derek Kouyoumjian While many Christians have been pushed out of their longtime places of worship, Muslims have spent decades configuring residential and commercial buildings The soaring brick facade of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC), nestled between neighboring Roxbury Community College and Madison Park Technical […]
THE PANDEMIC PAYDAY CONTINUES—FOR CONSULTANTS
Image via City Life/Vida Urbana Mass uses questionable tools to investigate eviction relief applicants State officials are spending more than $750,000 of COVID-19 aid on corporate consultants who will investigate applicants for eviction relief by running analytics on applications that housing advocates say can prevent residents from getting the relief they need. And while officials […]