It's moving season, and the City of Boston has launched a pilot program that aims to reduce the amount of furniture going to a landfill and help people in need furnish their homes -- all for free.

In Boston, about 70% of apartment leases turn over Sept. 1, according to the city, largely because of the number of students moving before the start of the school year.

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"With that, we see a lot of residents leaving unwanted furniture on the curb and sometimes people pick it up and take it home," said Thaddeus Brown, program manager with the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, describing what is known locally as " Allston Christmas ."

He said MONUM partnered with students from the Harvard Kennedy School to conduct re

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