Inn The News

• Pine Street Inn and Disability Law Center Partner to Enhance Accessibility in Shelter
  March 17, 2026 | The Disability Law Center and Pine Street Inn have completed a joint effort that will enhance accessibility and services for Pine Street Inn shelter guests living with disabilities.
• WCVB CityLine: Community Solutions to Homelessness
  February 22, 2026 | Pine Street President & Executive Director Lyndia Downie spoke with Jessica Brown about the organization’s efforts to provide services like housing with support, street outreach and job training to help people move beyond homelessness and into a community.
• The Dorchester Reporter: RIP, Rev. Msgr. Francis Kelley, the Pine Street Inn’s North Star
  February 18, 2026 | Pine Street Inn board member and life trustee, Dave Manzo, remembers his longtime friend, the late Monsignor Frank Kelley, and his tremendous impact on our community.
• NBC-10 Boston: ‘Please come in,’ Boston shelters urge those in need before frigid weekend
  January 22, 2026 | With temperatures predicted to be near zero for the next several days, Pine Street’s Lyndia Downie shared the organization’s plans to keep people experiencing homelessness safe.
• Boston Globe: ‘Unimaginably inhumane’: Federal cuts threaten to undo Boston’s progress fighting homelessness
  January 12, 2026 | A Boston Globe article outlines how potential federal funding cuts would impact homeless service providers, highlighting how much-needed supportive housing, similar to Pine Street’s largest residence in Jamaica Plain, could be at risk.