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Western Massachusetts Homeless Advocates Worried About Healey’s Shelter System Changes

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration announced Friday that families living at long-term shelters will have the maximum length of their stays cut to six months from the current nine months, for most.

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Published on November 25, 2024.

Getting Answers: State’s Homeless Encampment Laws

Several unhoused community members in Northampton were swept out of their encampment by police recently. See the video to learn more.

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Published on November 18, 2024.

Legislators, advocates meet to support Gov. Healey’s Affordable Homes Act

HOLYOKE, Mass. (New England Public Media) – State and local legislators, mayors and advocates gathered at a Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness event on Friday. The event, held at […]

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Published on June 4, 2024.

Western Mass News: Annual gathering held to fight against homelessness and eviction in western Massachusetts

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – Over 150 people came together at Holyoke Community College for the 8th Annual Gathering of the Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness to call attention to the […]

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Published on June 3, 2024.

WWLP Channel 22: Massachusetts Housing Secretary meets with officials at HCC to address homelessness

HOLYOKE: The Massachusetts Housing Secretary met with more than 150 state and local officials at Holyoke Community College on Friday morning to address the homeless problem in our state.

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Published on May 31, 2024.

Daily Hampshire Gazette: Getting a fix on homelessness—Advocates convene, strategize

HOLYOKE — After a disabling truck crash left Jocephus Grant unable to work, his wife moved out and the bank foreclosed on the Springfield home he had bought in 2009.

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Published on May 31, 2024.

MassLive.com: Homelessness in Hampden County has increased. What are some solutions?

HOLYOKE — Springfield and Holyoke are seeing among the highest rates of homelessness in Western Massachusetts, according to housing officials.

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Published on May 31, 2024.

Western Mass News “Getting Answers” with Dave Madsen (Sunday morning talk show)

This week, we’re getting answers from Pamela Schwartz, the director of the Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness.

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Published on May 28, 2023.

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