Top Senate Democrats are on board with many of the changes to the overburdened family shelter system that the House included ...

Municipal leaders have used existing local option taxes to raise money for affordable housing and to dodge property tax ...

JUST VOTE NO — Democratic governors, including Gov. Maura Healey, gathered last night for a call with Senate Minority Leader ...

Maura Healey, with the passage of ... I’m grateful to the firefighters, family members, labor leaders and legislators who ...

BOSTON — With the state's family shelter system under pressure from mounting costs and violent on-site incidents, Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday ... requiring in the line item that all members ...

The bill would still need a vote from the majority-Democrat state Senate and Democratic Gov. Maura Healey before it could ...

Families seeking access to taxpayer-funded shelters who claim eligibility for benefits receive up to $15,000 in services and ...

Factors contributing to the rise in homelessness include lack of affordable housing, the end of COVID-era policies, and an ...

Maura Healey ... I’m grateful to the firefighters, family members, labor leaders and legislators who worked so hard to pass this lifesaving bill,” said Healey at the signing ceremony.

BOSTON (SHNS) – The Healey ... family, they said. “We propose to return to the original intent of the Right to Shelter Law by removing the ‘presumptive eligibility’ mandate from the line ...

Maura Healey said they ... taxpayers between $10,000 to $15,000. Healey proposed waiving pre-placement verification on a “case-by-case basis” when a family “reasonably lacks” the necessary ...

The $425 million supplemental budget would strike a current provision that allows families to stay in shelters as officials determine whether they’re actually eligible applicants. It calls for cutting ...