The Healey administration is dramatically reducing its reliance on hotels for emergency shelter, closing 24 of 32 hotels used for this purpose by the end of Monday, with the remaining four closing by July 31. This closure follows a state of emergency declared in August 2023, which saw a significant increase in families in shelter. The state's system, maxed at a 7,500-family cap, depended on hotels to address the surge in migration and a housing crisis that has escalated during Healey's first term, marking a significant shift in emergency response strategy.
The Healey administration is set to close nearly all of the hotels and motels it has been using as emergency shelters by the end of the day Monday.
With the news comes an end to the widespread use of hotels as emergency shelters, a practice the state relied on to weather the worst of a crisis that has defined much of Gov. Maura Healey's first term.
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