Healey Bill Pours $250 Million More Into Massachusetts Shelter Crisis

CBS Boston

September 15, 2023

Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday proposed using nearly $300 million in one-time funds to infuse the state's strained emergency assistance shelter system and close a tax revenue shortfall.

Healey filed a more than $2 billion budget to close the state's books on fiscal year 2023 and direct new spending into the shelter state of emergency.

Her spending plan would pull $250 million from a state account known as the "transitional escrow fund" and put it toward the escalating emergency shelter crisis, which in recent weeks has become a focal point as Massachusetts works to assist a record number of people in need.

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