State two years behind on critical Shelter System reports
State two years behind on critical Shelter System reports
no report since 2021
The Commonwealth has not posted a Quarterly Emergency Assistance Legislative Report detailing the scope of the now widely critiqued Emergency Housing program since the first quarter of the 2022 fiscal year, a period covering July, August and September of 2021.
The EA program is now being used to house an unknown number of recently arrived illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense in motels, typically without notice to local officials or school administrators.
The state publishes a daily EA census but without culminative data, pictured below. Currently mass.gov is showing five quarterly reports available for public review:
The reports detail applications, denials, acceptances and exits from the state’s Emergency Assistance housing program, including demographic data.
In Q1FY22, the most common reason for entry into the program was health and safety (66%) and domestic violence (19%).
Hispanic/Latino comprised the largest demographic at 39% of all front door entries into the program, with black recipients at 31% and white at 22%.
We have placed a public records request for the outstanding reports.
