Ending Homelessness in Western Mass: A Progress Report
This morning our Network celebrated our success to date at Holyoke Community College. We had an over-capacity crowd of 200 people, including Mayors, legislators, state and local officials, business leaders, funders, […]
News report provides status update on family homelessness in Massachusetts
Today’s Republican reports that the number of homeless families in motels is decreasing. Click here for the story. From the article: State statistics show the number of homeless families living in […]
Buoniconti/Welch 10-Point Plan to Address the Practice of Placing Homeless Families in Hotels
Representative Welch and Senator Buoniconti’s aide Candace Lopes met this morning with the McKinney-Vento Services Coordination Committee in Springfield. Rep. Welch clarified that legislation introduced by him and Sen. Buoniconti […]
Franklin County Shelter Summit Report
Thanks to Joanne Glier of the Franklin County Regional Housing and Redevelopment Authority for this report on the Franklin County Shelter Summit: On December 2, 2009 more than 50 people […]
ICHH policy and practice priorities
ICHH Director Liz Curtis sent along ICHH policy and practice recommendations concerning regional network and cross agency issues. From Liz’ email: These recommendations for action come from a variety of sources, including […]
Viewpoint: No family deserves to go homeless
On Thanksgiving Day, the Springfield Republican published a Viewpoint piece I wrote (with help from Pamela Schwartz) about our regional network and the Housing First approach to ending homelessness. This was […]
After 2 years of being homeless, Karleen Ramos of Springfield is grateful just to have a home for her family this Thanksgiving
The Springfield Republican reports on a family that has recently been housed with rapid rehousing assistance. Photo by Don Treeger / The Republican Karleen M. Ramos and her family sit in front […]
New Blog Address: WesternMassHousingFirst.org
We still have the old blog address, but now we also have a more memorable address that also takes you to the blog. From now on, when you want to […]
