The Lt Gov's captain obvious moment: MA at "capacity" with immigrants
"at some point we're going to run out of rooms, and I think that's very, very soon"
Lt Gov Kim Driscoll told El Mundo Boston Thursday that the Commonwealth was near capacity with incoming immigrants and said it was up to the legislature to consider repealing or amending the so-called “right to shelter” law.
The planned invasion expedited by her party’s president (and many Republicans too) is working too well for Driscoll.
“At some point we’re going to run out of rooms, unfortunately, we just don’t have the capacity,” Driscoll told podcast host Alberto Vasallo III.
Earlier this week we reported on an oceanfront hotel in Plymouth being used as a hotel to house illegal immigrants.
The former Salem mayor also admitted that the immigrant influx is exacerbating the housing affordability crunch for Massachusetts citizens, “you know we already have a housing crunch, its really hard for people to find housing who live in Massachusetts already.”
In the final three months of 2022 (the most recent data available) the state spent an average of $65,000 per family per episode of homelessness with an average stay of 14 months. Governor Healey projects to spend $575m on the program this fiscal year.
Vasallo pressed the Lt Governor about the the right to shelter law which “has kinda attracted folks, you can’t deny its attracted…any chance of revisiting that policy?” Driscoll responded, “Yeah, I think that’ll be up to the legislature because it is an existing law.”
Driscoll also pegged the number of families living in emergency assistance housing at approximately 7500, an additional 500 more families than officially reported at mass.gov as of October 13, 2023.
Driscoll estimated the total population in emergency shelter at almost 23,000, paid for by the Massachusetts taxpayer.
Lt Gov interview starts at 22:50: