In May, Harvard Square Homeless Shelter unveiled a renovation that would allow guests to stay for the entire 6-month season. The renovations include 16 sleep pods, which provide three walls of privacy, a bed, storage, and a lockable wardrobe.

Hear the stories of a few Y2Y guests here (video produced by The Harvard Crimson).

Read all about guests’ stays and Y2Y’s adapting policies from its inception in this article.

In 2013, Shaun Donovan ’87, former Harvard Square Homeless Shelter volunteer and then-United States Secretary for Housing and Urban Development, received PBHA’s annual Phillips Brooks House Association Robert Coles “Call of Service” Award.

Read all about the journey Sam Greenberg ’14 and Sarah Rosenkrantz ’14 embarked on to found Y2Y.

In November of her freshman year, Katya F. Smyth ’93 received a call from John H. Finley IV ’92 — a director at PBHA’s homeless shelter and a former high school classmate of Katya’s — asking if she could fill in an overnight shift for a volunteer who hadn’t shown up. 

From that shift onwards, Katya was “hooked.”