About 100,000 single mothers live in Boston, where a recent women’s summit has shed light on the mounting financial struggles they face here and around the county. Faith Bush, 26, became a mother for the first time 18 months ago. Since then, it’s been a financial challenge of housing insecurity in Boston — she and her son have been unhoused, in a $2,600 Dorchester apartment, and now they’re couch-surfing from one Massachusetts residence to another. “Housing has affected all the aspects of my life,” she said. “Not having stable housing, it sucks. It makes everything hard.” |