Mass. emergency shelter commission wraps up work

Mass. emergency shelter commission wraps up work

A commission tasked with studying changes to the Massachusetts emergency shelter system wrapped up its work Tuesday by approving a final report that offers few specifics but instead outlines broad themes to guide future reforms. As Massachusetts faces a $1 billion tab in each of the next few fiscal years to house thousands of migrant … Read more

Senator eyeing legal fund for shelter records

Senator eyeing legal fund for shelter records

A Central Massachusetts senator wants to create a legal fund to help pay the costs of obtaining emergency shelter-related records, some of which he argues are being withheld or improperly redacted by state officials. Originally Published: August 25, 2024 at 5:26 a.m. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator … Read more

Massachusetts Republicans exploring emergency shelter ballot question for 2026 election

Massachusetts Republicans exploring emergency shelter ballot question for 2026 election

Massachusetts Republicans are exploring a ballot question for the 2026 election that takes aim at state-run shelters for migrants and locals. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To login in, click here. Originally Published: August 23, 2024 at 5:18 a.m. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator … Read more

State may ‘upwards’ of $800K on Norfolk prison turned shelter

State may ‘upwards’ of 0K on Norfolk prison turned shelter

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration could spend “upwards” of $800,000 to renovate and improve a former prison in Norfolk that was tapped earlier this year to house migrant families, many of whom were sleeping at Logan Airport, according to local and state officials briefed on the matter. Originally Published: July 18, 2024 at 6:19 a.m. Read … Read more

Mass. shelter spending topped $700M last month, report says

Mass. shelter spending topped 0M last month, report says

Massachusetts spending on the emergency shelter system housing migrant families and local residents has crossed the $700 million threshold, according to data released Monday. Government budget writers have projected the state will shell out approximately $932 million on the emergency shelter system in fiscal year 2024 and another $915 million in fiscal year 2025, which … Read more

Massachusetts governor’s southern border trip cost $6,800

Massachusetts governor’s southern border trip cost ,800

The Healey administration shelled out more than $6,800 to send a five-person team to the southern border in Texas to “educate” people of a shelter shortage here, according to her office. The trip was pitched as another attempt to curtail the number of migrants arriving in Massachusetts and make connections with federal immigration officials who … Read more

More no-bid contracts for Mass. emergency shelter system surface

More no-bid contracts for Mass. emergency shelter system surface

The state’s health and human services agency greenlighted at least four no-bid contracts and an agreement to rent shelter space at a Quincy college for more than $237,000 a month as the Healey administration attempted to respond to an influx of migrants over the past year, according to documents obtained by the Herald. Contracts between … Read more

Monica Tibbits-Nutt wants to ‘move forward’

Monica Tibbits-Nutt wants to ‘move forward’

Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt just wants to “move forward” after remarks she made last month at an advocacy event generated bipartisan backlash and even a rare rebuke from her boss, Gov. Maura Healey. Tibbits-Nutt held onto her job after the speech, though she largely operated under the radar in the days after the comments became … Read more

MassGOP wants investigation into no-bid shelter food contract

MassGOP wants investigation into no-bid shelter food contract

The Massachusetts Republican Party called on the State Ethics Commission Friday to launch an investigation into a no-bid contract to provide food at state-run shelters that has since expired but was awarded to a company whose employees donated to Gov. Maura Healey. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! … Read more

Small group rallies at State House against shelter spending

Small group rallies at State House against shelter spending

A group of less than 15 protestors rallied outside the State House Wednesday in opposition to state spending on emergency shelters in Massachusetts that are housing both local residents and migrants from other countries. The small contingent held large signs in front on the steps of the State House reading “close the Healey hotels” and … Read more