Janet Mills is proposing a three-month limit on emergency housing for homeless ... a proposal to set a three-month per year limit on housing assistance to reduce spending on the General Assistance ...

The proposal in the governor's update to the current budget is intended to rein in ballooning costs in the state's General Assistance program. Mainers on the verge of eviction because they can’t ...

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said the legislation is an attempt to support affordable housing providers who are in crisis mode over ...

About 51% of 211 calls last year were related to housing issues, highlighting a chronic issue, officials said.

A final appropriations bill should provide at least enough funding to maintain the number of households that currently ...

Only 38.2% of families who were eligible for emergency shelter received it in 2024. The "total percentage who are getting nothing has only gotten bigger,” said one organization's leader.

The mother called the city's homeless response team at least three times before two of her kids apparently froze to death while they slept in a van.

The properties currently contain 12 housing units, but the project’s goal is to improve that to anywhere from 16 to 20 units.

State housing officials would be allowed ... require that each individual adult applicant or beneficiary in the emergency assistance system disclose all prior criminal convictions in Massachusetts ...

The beach cleanup initiative comes as county leaders also approved emergency housing assistance for displaced residents. The Board unanimously voted to prioritize 50 Housing Choice Vouchers ...

The city’s ‘housing first’ approach would break from the region’s recent focus on creating emergency shelters and sanctioned ...