Gov. Maura Healey’s administration plans to drain a $700 million state escrow account to cover a portion of the unanticipated expenses.
The families in the shelter system are scattered in 100 cites and towns across the state, according to the document, from the 303 families housed in Worcester and the 173 sheltered in Woburn, to the 282 families housed in Springfield and the 280 who have found shelter in Lynn.
Boston tops the list with the largest number of families in shelter, with 1,308, the document indicated.
As of Tuesday, there were 7,529 families in the system, according to a state database. Ten families had been enrolled within the last 24 hours, the data showed.
In July, Healey and lawmakers appropriated just $325 million for emergency shelters in the fiscal 2024 budget, an amount that is not coming close to the funding needed to house homeless families from Massachusetts and new arrivals from other countries, State House News Service reported.
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An eye popping price tag for the state's emergency shelte
Nearly $1 billion needed for shelter system, Gov. Healey says
The document offers the fullest look yet at the costs of a crisis that caused Healey to declare a state of emergency in August. The surging costs are rolling in just as state tax revenue growth is slowing and creating budgeting storm clouds.
Bidens got a handle on it, relax .We will just print more money.
The families in the shelter system are scattered in 100 cites and towns across the state, according to the document, from the 303 families housed in Worcester and the 173 sheltered in Woburn, to the 282 families housed in Springfield and the 280 who have found shelter in Lynn.
Boston tops the list with the largest number of families in shelter, with 1,308, the document indicated.
As of Tuesday, there were 7,529 families in the system, according to a state database. Ten families had been enrolled within the last 24 hours, the data showed.
In July, Healey and lawmakers appropriated just $325 million for emergency shelters in the fiscal 2024 budget, an amount that is not coming close to the funding needed to house homeless families from Massachusetts and new arrivals from other countries, State House News Service reported.
An eye popping price tag for the state's emergency shelte
Nearly $1 billion needed for shelter system, Gov. Healey says
The document offers the fullest look yet at the costs of a crisis that caused Healey to declare a state of emergency in August. The surging costs are rolling in just as state tax revenue growth is slowing and creating budgeting storm clouds.
Bidens got a handle on it, relax .We will just print more money.
