Members of the Boston legislative Delegation recently visited Pine Street Inn to show support for homeless individuals in the city and to learn more about the support system in place serving these individuals.

Members of the Coalition for Homeless Individuals (CHI) including Project Place, the Boston Public Health Commission, and St. Francis House joined with Pine Street Inn for the presentation.

In addition to the discussion and briefing, attendees assisted staff and volunteers with food prep in the kitchen and participated in mock interviews with job trainees from Project Place.

Attached photo: (L to R) Rep. Kevin Honan, Rep. Adrian Madaro, Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, Rep. Chynah Tyler, Rep. Jay Livingstone, Rep. Jon Santiago, Rep. Dan Ryan, Rep. Dan Cullinane, Rep. Michael Moran

Prior to Friday's delegation briefing, CHI hosted their annual Legislative Breakfast at the State House, where tenants and guests spoke about their experience as homeless individuals. After the event, they visited Senators and Representatives to advocate for increased funding. CHI advocates are requesting that the legislature provide them the additional funding needed to reach $55 million for services and maintain the $5 million in funding for rapid transitional housing in the FY20 budget.

CHI is a network of 40 agencies, focused on supporting homeless individuals, that contract with the state to provide emergency shelter (day and night shelter), permanent housing, health care, employment services and other critical services to change the trajectory of homelessness in Massachusetts.