Massachusetts will phase out use of hotels and motels to shelter homeless families, governor says
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has announced that the state's reliance on hotels and motels to shelter homeless people will ...
Facing a cost of more than $1 billion, Healey proposes dramatic changes to emergency shelter system
The Legislature passed a law in the spring setting a nine-month limit. But state officials say they want to lower the cap to ...
State of Emergency Declared in Massachusetts
Five towns in Massachusetts have declared a state of emergency because of fires raging across the region.
Nearly all of Massachusetts is in a critical drought, one step away from emergency
A map released by EEA Secretary Rebecca Tepper showed a “Level 3 - Critical Drought” persisting in all regions of the state ...
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How many people are in Massachusetts emergency housing assistance
As of November 18th, 7,172 families are in shelters, hotels or motels, 3,509 of that number entered Massachusetts as migrants ...
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Fires in Massachusetts cause 5 towns to declare a state of emergency. Here's where
Five towns have declared a state of emergency. They include Boxford, Middleton, North Reading, North Andover, and Danvers.
5 Mass. towns declare state of emergency over ongoing brush fires
Five Massachusetts towns have declared a state of emergency due to the continued fire activity across the state. Town ...
Massachusetts aims to reduce emergency shelter costs to $350 million per year
The Healey administration is aiming to eventually limit shelter costs to $350 million per year compared to the more than $1 ...
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Healey: State shelter system is 'increasingly unsustainable.' What she proposes
The Healey administration is confronting more than $1 billion in annual costs tied to the state's emergency assistance family ...