State spent $85 million on shelter law in the last four weeks
At current trend, spending will top $1B a year
In the first quarter of the year the state spent $233 million on the Emergency Housing Assistance Program outpacing the prior $75 million per month estimate floated by state officials to an average of $83.46 million per month or $19.41 million per week. In the last two weeks for which data is available the state spent $53 million.
If current trends prevail the projected spending would reach over a $1 billion a year, out pacing Healey’s FY24 $932 million projection and FY25 $915 million projection.
The spending data is sourced from the Governor’s bi-weekly reports to the legislature filed by A&F Secretary Matthew J. Gorzkowicz and Housing Secretary Edward Augustus covering from 12/28/2023 to 3/21/2024, a period of 12 weeks. Reports can be accessed here but we’ve also complied the reports here in one location. The legislature’s website does not include the bi-weekly report for February 12th.