Facing community resistance to a planned homeless shelter in West Roxbury, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Monday underscored that the families set to move in are “Boston families.”
A state contractor plans to turn a vacant nursing home in West Roxbury into a shelter for up to 48 homeless families, as the state has sought to expand its stable emergency shelter beds to move families in the system out of hotels and motels.
At Emmanuel Episcopal Church in West Roxbury in May, neighborhood residents flooded a community meeting to oppose the planned shelter, voicing concerns about traffic, trash and safety, according to The Boston Globe…