Action Alert: Ask Your Rep to Cosponsor Priority Amendments!
Now is the time to reach out to your State Representative to ask for their co-sponsorship of our priority budget amendments! Find your representative here. It can be a one sentence email: […]
The FY26 House Ways and Means Budget: Summary Overview
On April 16, the House Ways and Means Committee released its Fiscal Year 2026 budget. The news is mixed for our priorities: On the plus side (relative to last fiscal year): The most notable minus for […]
Jan-Feb-March 2025 Meeting Minutes
January, 2025Family Services Committee Meeting – 1/14/25Western MA Task Force for Housing First – 1/16/25Individual Services Committee Meeting – 1/21/25 February, 2025Family Services Committee Meeting – 2/11/25Western MA Task Force […]
Mass. Housing Plan: 222,000 More Homes by 2035
The Healey-Driscoll Administration yesterday released A Home For Everyone: Massachusetts’ Statewide Housing Plan, the “first comprehensive statewide housing plan to increase housing production, meet the unique needs of communities and lower costs […]
Oct-Nov-Dec 2024 Meeting Minutes
October MeetingsFamily Services Committee Meeting – 10/8/24Individual Services Committee Meeting – 10/22/24Western MA Task Force for Housing First – 10/22/24 November MeetingsFamily Services Committee Meeting – 11/19/24Individual Services Committee Meeting […]
TODAY at 2:30: National Low Income Housing Coalition on National Threat to Immigrant Families
Apologies for the late notice, but please see below: The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s HoUSed campaign call today, December 9, 2:30-3:30 pm ET, will discuss anticipated threats to housing access to […]
Opposing Shelter Rule Changes to Keep Families Safe
Yesterday at the State House, people gathered to protest Governor Healey’s new rule changes regarding family shelter. The protest was organized by the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, Massachusetts Law […]
Secretary Ed Augustus Meets with the Network
Our Network delivered in its truest form yesterday—legislators, mayors, city and town staff and our family and individual shelter providers—to meet with Housing and Livable Communities Secretary Ed Augustus to discuss the unprecedented rise […]
