📢We continue to mobilize elected officials across the state to express our deep concerns about the shelter policy that is leaving vulnerable families with no safe options. ✉️50 elected officials representing: Acton, Boxborough, Beverly, Bedford, Cambridge, Littleton, Lowell,

Connecting unsheltered people with permanent housing and wraparound services immediately, rather than arresting them for sleeping outside? Very demure, very mindful.

TOMORROW: Grab your lunch and join the digital action hour on Zoom @ 12pm 🥪! Hear updates from MACoalition/Homeless Homes for All Massachusetts & keep pressure on Maura Healey to restore right to shelter 🫶🏾🏠. Register at tinyurl.com/ea-event-rsvp #MaPoli

Against this background, Maura Healey should reverse the shelter policy. Here's why: -These policies never serve as a deterrent. We have proof of this from other states that have tried this strategy. Why? Because when people are being forced to come through points of entry- a

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday & to Marilyn Humphries Photography for capturing these images at the visibility action outside of the state's Special Commission on Emergency Housing Assistance Programs meeting. Afterwards, some of us went into the meeting to listen.

August 19, 2024. Boston, MA. Rally outside of the McCormack Building before the Emergency Assistance Shelter Commission Meeting . More photos at buff.ly/4cwmPUd Protest about 5 day shelter limit. #housingforall @mahomeless

Somerville grapples with a rise in unsheltered homelessness wgbh.org/news/local/202… GBH News Tori Bedford City of Somerville End Homelessness MACoalition/Homeless

On Monday, we went to the state's second Special Commission on Emergency Housing Assistance Programs meeting to observe and listen. While the public is not allowed to speak at these meetings, we made our presence known. The slides from the meeting: mass.gov/.../ea-commiss…

#Mapoli I need you to prep to open your congregations for emergency overnights. “But by Monday night the money had dried up, leaving organizers the unenviable task of telling families, some with infants, they had no better option than to sleep outside.”patriotledger.com/story/news/202…

Haitian children sleep outside on the ground. How locals are showing them love patriotledger.com/story/news/202…

“We’ve got to stop treating people like criminals. People who are homeless could be looking for a job or for a landlord to rent to them, but instead they’re moving their tents around every day. It’s just not a very smart way to go about solving the problem.” - Steve Berg

Maura Healey’s new policy makes families pick between 5 days of short-term shelter and then being w/o shelter for 6 months, or staying homeless with the hope that they’ll get a spot in the long-term shelter. That’s a cruel choice to force on people and why they’re declining.

ALSO it’s absurd for Maura Healey to say families should choose respite centers and be kept out of shelter for 6 months, suggesting that 5 days is enough for families to be connected to housing or adequate services If that were true WE WOULDNT HAVE A SHELTER CRISIS RIGHT NOW

Continue the fight with us this Thursday, September 5th in front of the Governor's Office at 12:30 p.m. to protect the right to shelter for families experiencing homelessness in Massachusetts. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/ea-event-rsvp #EndHomelessness #RightToShelter #mapoli

NEW: A key program the state uses to find housing for homeless families (+ relieve pressure on shelter system) is so backed up that some applicants are missing out on apartments because some landlords have gotten fed up with waiting.bostonglobe.com/2024/09/03/met… w/ Mike Damiano #mapoli

But wait Maura Healey I thought 5 days was long enough to get connected to services and alternative housing? That's why you want families to forfeit access to shelter for 6 months by using a 5 day stay in respite centers, right?

"The governor’s actions will mean families with children sleeping in the streets." The Governer of Massachussets has halted the state's 40-year #RightToShelter: bit.ly/4dZCxse IsaiahThompson MACoalition/Homeless #housingjustice

Reminder: Continue the fight with us tomorrow, September 5th in front of the Governor's Office at 12:30 p.m. to protect the right to shelter for families experiencing homelessness in Massachusetts. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/ea-event-rsvp #EndHomelessness #RightToShelter #mapoli

Join the housing justice movement #today at 12:30pm outside Gov Healey's office (in the state house on the 3rd floor) to demand Mass.gov Healey to restore the right to emergency assistance shelter! #MaPoli MACoalition/Homeless Homes for All Massachusetts Massachusetts Law Reform Institute UU Mass Action Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network

Alongside families experiencing homelessness, advocates, providers, faith leaders, etc., we walked the halls of the State House to let Governor Healey & the Legislature know that we will NOT stop showing up against the harmful, cruel policy changes to EA until they are rescinded.