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 ...
The Legislature passed a law in the spring setting a nine-month limit. But state officials say they want to lower the cap to ...
Wichita’s emergency winter shelter to open in less than 2 weeks. Here’s what we know
“Our immediate goal and objective is an emergency winter shelter, a 24/7, at least 18-week shelter through the winter months, ...
Mass. high court rules in family shelter placement case
Over the past year and a half, in an attempt to control surging costs, Gov. Maura Healey instituted a cap of 7,500 families.
Emergency shelter, warming station issues 'Code Blue'; extends Friday hours
A "Code Blue" is in effect at Lifepath Christian Ministries in York, meaning the shelter and warming station is extending its ...
Mass. emergency shelter commission wraps up work with report that offers few specifics
A commission tasked with studying changes to the Massachusetts emergency shelter system wrapped up their work Tuesday by ...
Editorial: Commission kicks emergency shelter problems to new Legislature
They say the wheels of justice turn slowly, but the wheels of fixing the emergency shelter situation turn with glacial speed.