State Report on Individual Homelessness: Permanent Supportive Housing is the cost-effective solution

It’s not every day that a state agency steps out front to showcase what is working and what isn’t and what can be done to make things work better.  That’s […]

Published in Individual Services Committee, Stats & Facts on April 26, 2024.

February and March 2024 Committee Meeting Minutes

February, 2024Quarterly Career Services Committee Meeting – 2/1/24 Family Services Committee Meeting – 2/13/24Western MA Task Force for Housing First – 2/27/24 March, 2024Quarterly Youth and Young Adult Committee Meeting […]


January 2024 WMNEH Meeting Minutes

Family Services Committee Meeting – 1/16/24Western MA Task Force for Housing First – 1/25/24Individual Services Committee Meeting – 1/30/24


Organizational Sign-On Letter on EA Regulations

With over 300 families currently on the waiting list to access family shelter, please consider weighing in with the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) on their new EA […]

Published in Advocacy, Family Services Committee on December 20, 2023.

November and December 2023 Meeting Minutes

November, 2023Family Services Committee Meeting – 11/14/23Western MA Task Force for Housing First – 11/16/23Individual Services Committee Meeting – 11/28/23 December, 2023Youth and Young Adult Services Committee – 12/6/23Family Services […]


GOOD NEWS on Family Shelter and the State Supplemental Budget

Family Overflow Shelter Requirement Signed Into Law Thanks to the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless for this summary update (and for its leadership and support in our own advocacy to help […]

Published in Family Services Committee on December 8, 2023.

WMNEH September and October 2023 Meeting Minutes

September Meetings Quarterly Career Services Committee – 9/13/23Western MA Task Force for Housing First – 9/14/23Family Services Committee – 9/19/23Quarterly Youth and Young Adult Services – 9/20/23Quarterly Veterans Services Committee […]


Organizational Sign-on Letter: Recommendations to Move Beyond Family Shelter Crisis

Last week, you saw (and perhaps signed) a sign-on letter urging the State Legislature to uphold the right to family shelter. Now, the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, Massachusetts Law Reform […]

Published in Advocacy, Family Services Committee on October 31, 2023.

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