BOSTON – Governor Maura Healey has announced that the final hotel shelters in Massachusetts are closed.
The governor’s office says it inherited two challenges when it arrived in office in 2023: an unprecedented surge of families seeking emergency shelter and a flawed system that was ill-equipped to handle such a surge. A state of emergency was then declared.
Governor Healey worked with the Legislature to reform the Right to Shelter law to implement a six-month length of stay limit, require proof of Massachusetts residency and require that all family members have lawful immigration status, with limited exemptions…