As Massachusetts shutters nearly all of its remaining hotel shelters, a key rental subsidy program offered to those leaving shelters has run out of money.
Housing advocates say if lawmakers don’t fund the HomeBASE program, some of the more than 7,000 families enrolled could face eviction.
On Monday, Massachusetts housing officials closed 24 hotels that had been used as shelters. There are four remaining hotels being used as shelters that are slated to close by the end of the month. At the height of the state’s shelter crisis, more than 100 hotels were leased by the state as migrant families sought shelter in Massachusetts…