Haley House is established.

Founded by John and Kathe McKenna, it begins initially as a soup kitchen in the McKenna’s basement apartment on Upton Street. It becomes a homeless shelter named for Leo Haley, a neighborhood activist, and located at 23 Dartmouth Street in 1967. The new location consists of a soup kitchen on the building’s ground floor, with staff and formerly homeless individuals living on the upper floors. Haley House becomes the first service provider in Boston to create permanent affordable housing for the homeless when it purchases a nearby rooming house in 1979. It opens a restaurant on Dade Street in 2005.