Unless you’re the sort who pays attention, you probably didn’t notice that Gov. Maura Healey’s office has quietly stopped publishing a detailed accounting of how taxpayer money is being spent on the state’s emergency shelter system.
And that matters. Because the bi-weekly reports sent to legislative leaders usually included some pretty big numbers.
One such report, published earlier this year, showed taxpayer spending on the system cruising toward $1 billion. The system houses both permanent Massachusetts residents and migrant new arrivals, with the state spending a weekly average of $3,870 per family…