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Migrants may be eligible for $30,000 housing assistance boost
bostonherald ^ | 2/10/2024 | CHRIS VAN BUSKIRK

Posted on 02/10/2024 3:26:46 PM PST by bitt

Homeless families already in emergency shelters, including migrants from other countries, may be eligible for a state-run program that provides up to $30,000 over two years to find stable housing.

The program, HomeBASE, has long served homeless families with children or pregnant women living in the emergency shelter system, which provides temporary housing under state’s decades-old right-to-shelter law. About half of the shelter system houses Massachusetts residents, according to state officials.

Resettlement agencies are also working with Gov. Maura Healey’s administration to stand up a pilot program that would, according to one draft plan, help up to 400 migrants in shelter with one year of case management and help finding long-term housing, including through HomeBASE.

HomeBASE can help with a homeless family’s first and last month’s rent, security deposit, and broker’s fee for a new apartment. Monthly payments can assist with rent up to two years, with the possibility of a third year of help.

Money can also head to furniture, moving expenses, and utilities based on a family’s needs. And the program also supports overdue rent or utility payments.

The program pays a landlord or vendor, like a moving company or utility company, directly instead of handing cash to the family.

A family must either be living in or eligible — with all the required documentation — for the state-run emergency shelter system. Families in non-emergency domestic violence shelters and residential use treatment programs may also qualify for HomeBASE.

Healey capped the number of families in the emergency shelter system at 7,500 last year and instituted a waitlist for those who apply for temporary housing while shelters are at capacity. There were 714 families on the waitlist as of Thursday, according to the state’s housing department.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 000; 30; aliens; americalast; americanslast; boston; homebase; homeless; housing; housingassistance; illegals; maurahealey; migrants; migrantsurge; moneylaundering; shelter; theft; treason
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1 posted on 02/10/2024 3:26:46 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

in MA.


2 posted on 02/10/2024 3:27:10 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

Fine. Send them all to Boston.


3 posted on 02/10/2024 3:28:51 PM PST by fretzer
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To: bitt

Buying the vote. To ensure a permanent Leftist government who can repress, tax and make certain there is no opposition. Teach the same stuff in schools for the people here.

It’s the Communist playbook.


4 posted on 02/10/2024 3:28:57 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: fretzer

“Fine. Send them all to Boston.”

Time to spread the word ~ Free homes for all!


5 posted on 02/10/2024 3:30:22 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: bitt

American citizens are on lists for years waiting for help with housing like this...

The illegal aliens are going to get help right away ???


6 posted on 02/10/2024 3:31:45 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: bitt

This is the setup.
They get funds from our tax dollars, move into a rental and then refuse to leave.
Law enforcement refuses to evict.
Home owner is arrested if they try and evict.
Home owner looses the home and the “court” gives it to the renter.

Indications this has already started in-mass in GA.


7 posted on 02/10/2024 3:32:30 PM PST by Zathras
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with all the required documentation
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Yeah unless youre an illegal alien then the rules dont apply


8 posted on 02/10/2024 3:33:08 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: bitt

The homeless and veterans will pay dearly for this.


9 posted on 02/10/2024 3:33:20 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: fretzer

Better yet, send them to Martha’s Vineyard.


10 posted on 02/10/2024 3:33:39 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "democracy" like trying to throw your opponent in jail.)
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To: bitt

The homeless and veterans will pay dearly for this.


11 posted on 02/10/2024 3:33:50 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: bitt

Pay them Taxachusetts taxes so’s the perv governor can give your money away!


12 posted on 02/10/2024 3:33:50 PM PST by kiryandil (Free Zaluzhny!)
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can legal American citizens get the same amount? IF An American can’t get what illegal trespassers get then your own government has shown you what you are worth. nothing. and YET the mo and Ron’s will still vote for the demolitioncrats.


13 posted on 02/10/2024 3:33:50 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: mountainlion

They are expendable in this screwed up country.

Disgusting.


14 posted on 02/10/2024 3:41:22 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: bitt

So America, how do you like what Joe Pedo and his far-left bastards are doing with your tax money? The miggies are lovin’ it more than McDonalds.


15 posted on 02/10/2024 3:41:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Joe Pedo's America! The Motel 6 to the world. Joe's Border Patrol will keep the light on for you.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

“The illegal aliens are going to get help right away ???”

Democrat politicians know democrat voters are too stupid to vote any way but democrat and are just nailing down the illegal vote.


16 posted on 02/10/2024 3:46:32 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: bitt
THEY AREN’T “MIGRANTS”!

They are ILLEGAL aliens.

17 posted on 02/10/2024 3:48:20 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: bitt

And I’ll bet most of the money gets sent back home.


18 posted on 02/10/2024 3:49:33 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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Boston has had a huge homeless crisis on Misery/ Methadone Mile for years.

But they don't care. They just keep force feeding more and more disposable people into the cities.


19 posted on 02/10/2024 3:53:43 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: bitt

Meanwhile, junior enlisted in our military need food stamps.


20 posted on 02/10/2024 3:54:32 PM PST by Lizavetta
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