There is NO WAY that "the alleged fraud had no direct impact on the homeless served by the nonprofit."
Have you asked those homeless people what their experience has been like? Have you asked about how they were treated and investigated their living conditions?
Article:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/nyregion/homeless-shelters-services-fraud.amp.html%3f0p19G=2870
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That article is about New York.
According to Charity Navigator, the annual budget of the Pine Street Inn of Boston is around $50 million and its assets are around $70 million.
Along with its lack of services for the myriad problems threatening the stability of homeless people, such as abuse, addiction, mental illness and physical disability, the Pine Street Inn's financial information does make one curious about why the men's shelter at the primary location has a group shower and the women's shelter serves cold breakfast every day of the year other than major holidays.
I have previously mentioned several issues at my Twitter about homelessness, such as why the Pine Street Inn runs a laundry service for which it charges money and uses homeless workers, but homeless women who stay at the women's shelter aren't allowed to use the shelter's washers and driers to clean their clothes, even though there are no wheelchair-accessible laundromats nearby.
The Pine Street Inn is constantly publicizing that it is putting most of its money into "supportive" housing for the homeless. It doesn't say that it charges rent for that housing, and it doesn't say that it is operating its shelters on as little money as it can get away with. It also doesn't say that the hundreds of units for which it has received millions of dollars of funding over the duration of several years haven't made a dent in the size of Boston's homeless population, which is around 6,000 people.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=6605
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It's not just the Pine Street Inn. Most homeless people suspect that the money that was supposed to help the homeless has gone somewhere else for as long as there have been homeless support systems.
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As I have said before, at least Boston and New York have dysfunctional systems. That's better than having no system and a few small shelters scattered around the state, as is the case in Vermont. Have I mentioned how cold the winters are in Vermont? They are colder than in Boston. Vermont is not a good place to be homeless, or poor, for that matter.
