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 ...
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Gov. Maura Healey plans to limit emergency family shelter stays to six months and phase out using hotels for housing
Gov. Maura Healey's office intends to phase out the use of hotels and motels for emergency shelter, seek a legislative change ...
Displaced Steward patients are turning to neighboring hospitals for help, worsening already critical ER overcrowding
Almost three months after two Steward hospitals closed, their neighbors are shouldering the burden of displaced patients.
Did rain put out the wildfires in Massachusetts? Here's what fire officials are saying.
In the Boxford State Forest on Thursday, crews were out in the wet weather digging out hotspots on the trails. The fire has burned more than 500 acres, and a video posted by the Boxford Fire ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...