Homelessness and Housing Assistance – Massachusetts

Hundreds of Massachusetts families forced back to hotels for homeless as rental assistance program winds down, By Colleen Quinn, October 17, 2013, The Republican: “For the past two years, Daysi Avalos was happy she and her five children had a home to live in, so it was a shock when the rental assistance she received from the state ran out last month. She and her children – who range in age from 8 to 18 – were forced to leave their Dorchester apartment immediately and move into a motel shelter in Leominster, the closest one available, she was told. Avalos is among the 5,400 families enrolled in the state’s HomeBASE rental assistance program that are starting to roll off the two-year program. The assistance is scheduled to end for all recipients by June 30, 2014, according to a spokesman for the Department of Housing and Community Development…”