(Approved by the HSPN membership on June 16.2022) The City of New Bedford’s HSPN membership adopted its CoC Community Priorities at its regular meeting of June 16.2022.  Those priorities are available here: 2022 COC COMMUNITY PRIORITIES.

The City of New Bedford has completed its annual “Point In Time” (PIT) count creating a census of those individuals and families experiencing homelessness within the city, both sheltered (living in emergency or transitional housing) and unsheltered (on the streets/in places not meant for human habitation). Concurrent with that has been the development of the[ Continue reading. ]

April is Fair Housing Month so the HSPN asked Rebecca Eissenova, Legal Director with Catholic Social Services in Fall River, to share her presentation on Immigration, particularly as it intersects with the work homeless service providers undertake.  The resulting presentation, a copy of which is provided here, offers a great overview into this complicated subject.[ Continue reading. ]

Although typically a complete Point In Time (PIT) Count and Housing Inventory Chart (HIC) is presented on this website, in advance of that publication this year, an early snapshot of the unsheltered statistics collected in February 2022 has been published in a brief PowerPoint.  Check out the early numbers from the street count here: UNSHELTERED[ Continue reading. ]

Interested in a quick snapshot about the New Bedford Continuum of Care?  Here’s an infographic that highlights some information, current as of 2022:  2022 HOMELESSNESS INFOGRAPHIC

Mayor Jon Mitchell announced that the City of New Bedford has been awarded $2,090,727 in homeless assistance funding by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as part of a competitive grant process under HUD’s Continuum of Care Program.  Read the complete PRESS RELEASE here. 

The City of New Bedford’s Office of Housing & Community Development has released the 2022 StreetSheet. Go to the HSPN Resource Page to access a copy of the sheet in English, Portuguese and Spanish.  Hard copies of the StreetSheets are also available upon request by contacting Jennifer.Clarke@newbedford-ma.gov.  (Copies are available while quantities last).

Overiew prepared by Steppingstone, Inc.  Steppingstone Inc. is providing emergency shelter through a Cold Weather Overflow Shelter Project to unsheltered homeless at a local motel (with a total of 25-30 units set aside for the overflow shelter).  This will be offered when there is no vacancy at either of the Catholic Social Services’ (CSS) Shelters. The following[ Continue reading. ]