The Growing Crisis of Unsheltered Homelessness

Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA) continues to provide a forum for discussing the crisis of COVID-19, cold and lack of sufficient shelter. They offer these observations below: Winter is […]

Published in Advocacy, Individual Services Committee, Training on October 30, 2020.

USICH Plan to End Homelessness: “Deeply Flawed and Ill-Informed”

Please see this important alert from the National Low-Income Housing Coalition: “The United State Interagency Counsel on Homelessness (USICH) released on October 19 a new strategic plan that is deeply flawed and […]

Published in Advocacy on October 27, 2020.

Western MA Mayors and Managers Unite to Keep Western MA Safe

12 mayors and town managers from across our four western counties joined together in a letter to the MA COVID-19 Command Center to urge immediate attention to our region’s urgent […]

Published in Advocacy on October 23, 2020.

Join MHSA and Senate Ways and Means Chair Rodrigues on Tuesday October 20, 10 am

Please join Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA) President & Executive Director Joe Finn and Senate Ways & Means Chair Michael J. Rodrigues on Tuesday, October 20, for a discussion about the […]

Published in Advocacy on October 16, 2020.

Join Invest in our Recovery Legislative Briefing – Thurs., 10/22, 5 pm

The Western MA Network to End Homelessness is pleased to partner with the Raise Up Massachusetts Coalition as part of the Invest in Our Recovery campaign to host a legislative briefing about […]

Published in Advocacy on October 16, 2020.

Financial Wellness During COVID – Reframing Benefit Cliffs with Senator Lesser and Rep. Vega – Oct. 29

Please join Springfield Partners for Community Action and Springfield WORKS/EDC for their third Opportunities for Action series: Financial Wellness during COVID: Reframing Benefit Cliffs to Support Working FamiliesFeaturing Senator Lesser, […]

Published in Advocacy, Career services on October 16, 2020.

Governor Baker’s Eviction Diversion Initiative

Yesterday, Governor Baker announced the Eviction Diversion Initiative. More details from his press release are below. To learn how to access resources go here for English web page and and […]

Published in Advocacy on October 13, 2020.

Housing Justice is Racial Justice: Act Now to Pass the Guaranteed Housing Stability Act

When the statewide eviction moratorium expires on October 17, as many as 100,000 households will be threatened with eviction, housing insecurity and homelessness, and a disproportionate number of those households […]

Published in Advocacy on October 12, 2020.
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