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A Globe review of state contracts offers a glimpse at the nearly $1 billion emergency shelter system the state is now operating for homeless families, about half of them migrants from other countries.
Migrants living in at-capacity emergency shelters are packaging cooking oil in Ayer, caring for patients with developmental disabilities in Waltham, and gearing up to clean hospital rooms in Salem. But getting to that point has required a massive undertaking.
State officials are “open to time limits” for homeless families living in emergency shelters, Gov. Maura Healey said Thursday.
BOSTON -- An increase in the numbers of migrants over the past year has pushed a shelter system built to handle about 3,000 families each year to its limits, forcing providers across the state to scramble to find additional housing units for the thousands of new arrivals that have made their way to Massachusetts.
Some shelter providers applauded a move by Gov. Maura Healey to cap the number of families in Massachusetts' emergency shelter system.