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Mass. emergency shelter funding dwindling: details from Beacon Hill
While negotiators remain at odds over how much they want to draw from state savings and exactly what kind of time limits to place on shelter stays — plus whether restaurants should resume takeout drink sales — funding could run out in less than two weeks, a Healey administration official confirmed
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Mold at Brighton emergency shelter in former motel forces families to relocate
Two dozen families, many of them migrants, were forced to relocate due to a mold infestation at an emergency shelter in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood. Massachusetts says 24 families are being relocated from the former Charles River Motel on Soldiers Field Road. The situation is causing frustration for those who rely on the essential assistance. The families will stay at a…
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Dozens of families relocated from Brighton shelter due to mold
An infestation of mold is forcing families from an emergency shelter in Boston.
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Mass. cities and towns work together to combat housing crisis
While a lot of work is underway to find homes for newly-arriving migrants, housing has long been an issue in Massachusetts. A collection of towns and cities just north of Boston has banded together to help anyone in need of a place to stay or general help. This initiative has been in the works for over a year, and thanks…
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Municipalities work together to tackle housing crisis
Cities and towns in the Boston area are joining forces to help migrants and other people in need of shelter.
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Shelter set to help about 25 families in Fort Point
Migrant families who need housing are getting ready to move into a building in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston. Their impending arrival at the new Farnsworth Street shelter comes with criticism that neighbors had no say. “The process and the community process itself were lousy,” said City Councilor Ed Flynn. “There was no residential or community input.” Flynn represents…
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New emergency shelter will open in Fort Point, Healey says
Gov. Maura Healey said Monday that an emergency overflow shelter will soon open in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston. Healey confirmed that the United Way will use the building on Farnsworth Street to help migrants in need of housing. “As soon as possible, I just don’t know how long it’s going to take to get everything operationalized and,...
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Emergency migrant shelter will open in Fort Point
Gov. Maura Healey says a new emergency shelter for migrants will soon open in Boston.
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Massachusetts' 2-year emergency shelter tab may approach $2B
Massachusetts’ emergency shelter costs will approach $1 billion annually this fiscal year and next fiscal year, according to the Healey administration, which plans to drain a $700 million state escrow account to cover a portion of the unanticipated expenses. The Legislature and Gov. Maura Healey in July appropriated just $325 million for emergency shelters in the fiscal 2024 budget, an…
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Mass. lawmakers keep trying to find way to pass supplemental budget bill
The clock is ticking for lawmakers on Beacon Hill to find compromise on a nearly $3 billion supplemental budget bill. After failing to reach an agreement by Nov. 15, the legislature is now in informal session, creating an even more difficult lift for Democrats in the majority. “The legislature didn’t do their job in a timely fashion, they’re now in…
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State's supplemental budget still on hold
Massachusetts lawmakers are trying to pass a supplemental budget bill before the new year.
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Migrant families begin temporary stay in Mass. transportation building
Seventeen migrant families spent their first night Monday inside the Massachusetts State Transportation Building in Boston, which is serving as a makeshift shelter. Cots fill some of the conference rooms to provide temporary housing for a limited number of families in need. It will be set up for approximately two weeks. The state said it is only a temporary option…
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Migrant families spend first night in transportation building
A Massachusetts transportation building has been converted to a makeshift shelter for families in need.
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Mass. Senate approves plan including $250M to shelter system; window for deal is short
The Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday night approved a plan that injects $250 million more into the state’s emergency shelter system, opening a window of just about 30 hours for House and Senate Democrats to hammer out differences before lawmakers depart on a holiday break. Senators voted 36-3 to approve a roughly $2.8 billion spending bill that, in addition to directing…
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Judge rules for Mass. in migrant housing crisis lawsuit
A judge has sided with the Healey administration in a lawsuit challenging her plan to enact a cap on the number of people in emergency shelters.
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Judge allows Mass. to implement emergency shelter ‘cap' amid influx of migrants
The Healey administration can implement a waitlist for Massachusetts’ crowded emergency shelter system after a judge declined to issue the temporary restraining order requested in a lawsuit filed on behalf of three families on the verge of homelessness. In Wednesday’s ruling, Suffolk Superior Court Justice Debra A. Squires-Lee said that the state had acted properly to deal with spiking...
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Migrants express gratitude with National Guard set to help at emergency shelters
Migrants staying in emergency shelters in Massachusetts say they are grateful for the help the commonwealth is providing them. Subeidy Romero is a Venezuelan migrant staying at a hotel turned into an emergency shelter. She says they have been visited by medics who have provided health assessments. “We went through a lot of things on the way, but thanks to…
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200+ National Guard members helping Mass. migrants
With thousands of migrants and homeless families in emergency shelters across Massachusetts, hundreds of National Guard members are being deployed to help.
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State regulation gone awry as housing crisis declared an emergency
More than 1,700 families are currently living in emergency shelter hotel rooms across the state, with many from Massachusetts living extremely far away from their home communities — which is against state regulations. As the housing crisis stretches on, with an emergency being declared Tuesday, we’re seeing more and more of those families being placed 50 miles — in some…
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Many Mass. families in need are Placed in emergency shelters far from their homes
Hundreds of families are living in emergency shelter hotel rooms in Massachusetts, and in conflict with a state regulation, a lot of them are far away from their home communities.