Boston provides two-thirds of the shelter beds in our state.

Administration officials speak with pride of their domestic violence program, including what they see as a substantial increase in shelter beds.

The city has barely 1,000 shelter beds, and hundreds of them are available only in the winter.

"The fact that there is not a single shelter bed available in the city is obviously lost on the Mayor."

Those who can't find a shelter bed may return to the drop-in center and stay all night.

But now, the city needs every shelter bed it can muster.

San Francisco, with a population of 750,000, has an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people who are homeless, and 1,500 shelter beds.

Privatization, however, has increased the annual cost of shelter beds from $18,000 to $23,000.

We have 1,800 shelter beds and 140 families on the waiting list.

It provides about 200 of the city's 879 shelter beds for battered women and their children.