Posted on 10/16/2023 4:18:27 PM PDT by matt04
As Massachusetts’ shelter system nears capacity, Gov. Maura Healey said Monday the state can no longer guarantee shelter placement for new arrivals after the end of this month.
“I want to assure you that we will continue to engage, assess and serve every family who appeals for help as best we can,” Healey said during a press conference at the State House.
The governor said that although families with high needs, including health and safety risks, will be prioritized for shelter placement as winter approaches, “we are entering a new phase of this challenge — we can no longer guarantee shelter placement for families who are sent here.”
Officials estimate by the end of October, the number of people housed in the Commonwealth’s shelter system will reach 7,500 families or 24,000 people – the state’s limit.
As of Sunday, close to 7,000 families are being housed in the state’s emergency shelter system, which is more than double what it was a year ago, officials say.
There are about 23,000 people housed in the Bay State’s emergency shelter system across 90 municipalities, which is the equivalent of a small city, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll said.
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Ask your friends in Martha’s Vineyard to take a few hundred.
how many did SHE take into HER OWN home?
and with multiple homes, she could takes scores of the
homeless, but probably will not.
It would be very gracious of them to do that and pitch in to help since they are the ones responsible for this mess in the first place.
Let them step up and put actions to their words.
Same thoughts here.
It would be a shame of TX or FL helped them get the ball rolling on that project. We all know how well they were received the last time....
Take it up with Joe Biden.
Well, guv, you need to find additional resources. More are coming — as long as Biden maintains the open border policy.
His building the wall is nothing more than slight-of-hand trickery.
Such an easy problem to solve. Just steal more hotel rooms from the vets, soldiers and sailors coming to the Army Navy game. Pretty soon there will be nobody in the stands, but who would miss a cheering crowd. Maybe they’ll let all the illegales in to watch the game for free.. Then they can put up mobile military-style tents on the field and the illegales can just move from the stands down to their new homes.
They aren’t thinking creatively enough.
How about government employees take in some so they can actually earn their pay?
If these elected officials just payed attention to most of their constituency, none of this would really be a problem for them. Where are all the people clamoring for illegals to have shelters?
Why does shelter have to mean a wooden or brick structure. Just issue each of them a tent.
Who voted for this?
This is an outrage!
This is not the work of democrats—this is globalist forces stuffing this down our throats!
Just what I wrote...tents on the field at Foxboro after the Army Navy Game.
How many tents can fit on the Kennedy compound?
Hey Maura! Cry me a river! You liberals were really open hearted and loving until the illegals inundated your area. And now you think you’re overcrowded? There must be hundreds of thousands of unused beds in peoples’ homes that could be used, right? 🙄🙄🙄
Toughskii s***skii, Maura. Y’all wanted this. Enjoy your banquet of consequences.
Yeah, how many is o’bamskee “hosting” at his beach shack?
🙏🇮🇱👍
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