New Year’s Day brought to the city of Boston the fifth consecutive day of temperatures below 20 degrees,
and fears from officials and homeless people that the sustained frigid weather was taxing the city’s resources and imperiling the lives of people on the streets. “It has never been this bad,” said Karen LaFrazia, President and CEO of St. Francis House, the
day shelter where she has worked for 20 years. “It’s just so frozen. I see people coming ... |