Patients at Boston hospitals get free housing in Brighton Read more: Patients at Boston hospitals get free housing in Brighton

There are many families around the world who travel to Boston for extensive or specialized health care, but do not have the money for an extended stay at a hotel.That’s where Hospitality Homes comes in.
The Boston-based non-profit has volunteer host homes in several Boston suburbs as well as a permanent apartment in Reservoir Towers in Brighton owned by Gerald Schuster, a Boston-area philanthropist and president and CEO of Continental Wingate Company.
Schuster and staff members at Hospitality Homes estimate the Reservoir Towers apartment, located between Chestnut Hill Ave. and Commonwealth Ave., has hosted about 70 different families since 2003.
“It’s been a wonderful relationship over the years,” said Schuster. Today, a couple from Kentucky is settling in to the apartment as the wife prepares to undergo cancer treatment at Brigham & Women’s and Dana-Farber.