Take Action to Get Good Housing Policies in the Economic Development Bill!

Thanks to CHAPA for this quick action: Click here to add your voice to urge the Conference Committee to adopt these important policies: ALSO: contact your legislators to ask them to urge the conference committee to […]

Published in Advocacy on August 5, 2026.

MA Legislature Passes FY27 Budget

How Housing/Homelessness Priorities Fared in the Conference Committee Budget Last week, the Legislature’s Conference Committee released its FY27 budget, which the full Legislature adopted on July 1. The budget is […]

Published in Advocacy on July 6, 2026.

June 2026 WMNEH Meeting Minutes

June, 2026 Meetings Family Services Committee – June 9, 2026Quarterly Career Services Committee – June 15, 2026Western MA Task Force for Housing First – June 25, 2026Individual Services Committee – […]

Published in Career services, Family Services Committee, Individual Services Committee, Meeting Minutes, Uncategorized, Western MA COVID-19 Task Force for Housing First on July 2, 2026.

HUD Attacks LGBTQ+ Protections – Respond by 6/29

HUD has released a proposal to weaken the Equal Access Rule. The proposed rule change would: The proposed rule is open for public comment until June 29, 2026. Our state and national […]

Published in Advocacy on June 8, 2026.

One Minute Actions: Push on the FY27 Budget!

The Massachusetts House and Senate have each passed their FY2027 budgets, and conferees are now meeting to produce a final version with a goal of finishing their work by June […]

Published in Advocacy on June 4, 2026.

We Showed Up! Over 150 Strong Joined in the Call for Action

HLC Secretary Matias, Our State Legislators, Our Mayors, Our Community: Together to Meet the Challenge On Friday, May 29, the Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness held its 10th Annual Gathering on The […]

Published in Annual Gatherings on June 1, 2026.

March – April 2026 Meeting Minutes

March 2026 MinutesFamily Services Meeting – 3/10/26Quarterly Career Services Meeting – 3/23/26Western MA Task Force for Housing First – 3/26/26 April 2026 MinutesFamily Services Meeting – 4/14/26Quarterly outh and Young […]

Published in Career services, Family Services Committee, Individual Services Committee, Meeting Minutes, Veterans Committee, Western MA COVID-19 Task Force for Housing First, Youth and Young Adult Services Committee on May 4, 2026.

Ask Your State Representatives to Co-sponsor Housing and Homelessness Amendments!

Next week, the Massachusetts House of Representatives will debate and decide their proposed FY2027 state budget. This is the time to ask them to co-sponsor our Network’s priority budget amendments to prevent and end homelessness […]

Published in Advocacy on April 23, 2026.

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