Harbor Homes, Martha’s Vineyard’s homeless prevention organization, has appointed Jeannette de Jesús as its new executive director. Ms. de Jesús has led the organization in an interim capacity since October of 2025.
In this week’s 10-minute news wrap-up from the Vineyard Gazette newsroom, we hear how residents of Chappaquiddick bore the brunt of power outages during the blizzard. And we help cook up a meal for guests at Harbor Homes shelter.
The Vineyard’s only overnight winter shelter will open next week at a new location.
Harbor Homes, a nonprofit dedicated to helping unhoused Islanders, is set to open the shelter on Nov. 1 at 111 New York avenue in Oak Bluffs.
The shelter had previously been operating out of a building on the Martha’s Vineyard Community Services campus in Oak Bluffs, but had to move at the end of last season because the building was demolished.
Harbor Homes will operate its winter emergency homeless shelter in a new location this season after the Oak Bluffs zoning board of appeals approved a temporary conversion of its women’s group home for a new use.
Fights at a homeless encampment near the park and ride in Tisbury earlier this month have led the town to begin enforcing bylaws that prohibit camping.
Harbor Homes of Martha’s Vineyard, the Island’s homelessness prevention nonprofit, announced this week that Brian Morris has resigned as executive director, effective April 30.
