Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
We will be open from November 1st, 2023 - April 15th, 2024.
Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
We will be open from November 1st, 2023 - April 15th, 2024.
We will be open from November 1st, 2023 - April 15th, 2024.
We will be open from November 1st, 2023 - April 15th, 2024.
Please note that the shelter is closing in the morning on April 15th, 2024.
If you have won a bed, you must contact us to accept the bed before 8:00AM on Monday, April 1st, 2024.
Please be aware that you will not have access to this bed after the morning of April 15th, 2024.
Please contact us if you have any questions. Our email is hshs.waitlist@gmail.com, and our phone number is (888) 285-4038.
If you are interested in staying with us for the 2023-2024 winter season, you may enter the lottery / join the waitlist at any time by filling out the form linked below or by emailing us at hshs.waitlist@gmail.com.
We will run a bed lottery for any available beds every Thursday and Monday at 8:00am starting on Thursday, November 2nd. If there are no available beds, no lottery will be run.
HSHS will be operating a regular lottery for open beds throughout the 2023-2024 winter season. Clients who win a bed will be able to stay with us for the entire season. We plan for this season to run from November 1st, 2023 - April 15th, 2024, barring any complications from an ongoing renovation project in the shelter space. Please read below for the full lottery process.
Please also note that HSHS is a dry shelter.
The first lottery (prior to season opening) will run at 9:00 AM on Thursday, October 26th. Once the season begins, lottery results will be posted every Thursday and Monday at 8:00am (only as beds become available) beginning on Thursday, November 2nd.
Upon applying, you will receive a number, which will be your assigned number for all future lotteries, but does not correlate to a ranking in any way. Winners will be drawn randomly from the waitlist, which is unranked.
The winning lottery numbers will be posted on the shelter’s door, on our voicemail message, and on our website (hshshelter.org). Winners will also be notified via phone or email.
Please accept your bed within 3 days of notification. If we do not hear from you within this timeframe, we will lottery your bed to someone else.
You will be automatically placed onto our unranked waitlist. Lotteries will run every Monday and Thursday as beds open up. If no beds are available, no lottery will be run. Clients on the waitlist will be contacted monthly to check if they would like to remain active on the waitlist. Clients then have 72 hours to confirm their continued interest, but can also rejoin the waitlist at anytime with no penalty.
We are located in the basement of University Lutheran Church at 66 Winthrop Street in Cambridge, MA.
SHELTER HOURS: Every night from 7:00pm - 8:00am (9:00am on Saturdays)
CONTACT INFORMATION:
If you are interested in staying at HSHS, contact hshs.waitlist@gmail.com.
For questions about volunteering at HSHS, contact hshs.volunteer@gmail.com.
For questions about supply donation to HSHS, contact hshs.donation@gmail.com.
For all general inquiries, please contact hshs.info@gmail.com.
Shelter Phone: (888) 285-4038
This phone line is not always monitored outside of shelter hours, so email is preferred.
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