Healey fails to complete a single legislative report on shelter expenditures in 2023
No quarterly legislative reports posted this year
The Healey administration has failed to complete a single Emergency Assistance quarterly legislative report in 2023, stating legislative reports for 2023 “have not been completed as of this date.” The third quarter of fiscal year 2023 ended almost nine months ago.
The FY2023 Q2 legislative report we obtained in October revealed an “average household cost” of $65,423 with an average stay in the Emergency Assistance shelter program of 428 days or a staggering average of $4,587 per month. In one instance the state spent $471,145 to house one homeless family in late 2022.
We requested reports via a public records request to the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities on December 20 for the fiscal year quarters of: FY2023 Q3, FY2023 Q4, FY2024 Q1. FY2023 Q3 would correspond with January, February and March of 2023.
In response to our request the Healey administration wrote: “EOHLC has found no records in its possession which are responsive to your request. The reports you are seeking have not been completed as of this date.”