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State Plans to Close All Hotel, Motel Shelters This Summer
- On May 19, 2025, Governor Maura Healey announced that the state plans to shut down all of its remaining 32 hotel shelters before the summer concludes.
- She accelerated the original plan, which aimed to close shelters by the end of 2025, citing a decline from 100 shelters at the peak in summer 2023.
- The closure plan follows reforms by Healey’s administration that capped shelter families at 7,500 and tightened eligibility to reduce caseloads and costs.
- Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll emphasized that shutting down hotel shelters is crucial for helping families achieve stability and will result in annual savings of hundreds of millions of dollars for the state.
- The reduction suggests progress toward fewer families in emergency shelters, with expected shelter population dropping below 4,000, but concerns remain about stable housing availability.
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As Healey Moves To Close Hotel Shelters Early, Cambridge Housing Advocates Worry About Impact
Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey ’92 announced on Monday that the state will close all 32 remaining hotel shelters six months ahead of schedule — leading Cambridge housing advocates to worry about increased strain on the city’s resources.
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Administration officials have been pressuring lawmakers to speed up the transition away from the emergency motel housing program, and cut down on costs. Despite winning some concessions, the governor’s administration wouldn’t say whether it was satisfied.
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Haverhill GazetteEarly check-out: State shuts down remaining migrant hotels
BOSTON — The Healey administration will end the state's reliance on hotels to provide shelter for migrants and other homeless families by this summer — months ahead of a self-imposed plan to shut them down — amid a continued drop…
Governor Maura Healey reported that all shelters located in hotels will close during the summer, six months earlier than originally planned. As part of the current plan, shelters in Norfolk and Revere will close this summer, and the Lowell center will change its function to respond faster to new requests.“A hotel is not a place to raise a family, and are the least profitable. That’s why we implemented reforms to reduce the workload and cost of t…
Gov. Maura Healey says ‘some’ of Trump’s border policies make sense
Gov. Maura Healey offered a rare nod of approval to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies Tuesday, saying “some” of the decisions the Republican made this year to restrict access for migrants trying to enter the U.S. at the border make “a lot of sense.” Massachusetts experienced a surge in migrant arrivals over the past two years that placed a strain on state-run emergency shelters. But shelter caseloads started to decline over the winte…
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