Massachusetts is creating overnight shelter spots to help newly arriving migrant families

Massachusetts has begun awarding grants to local agencies to set up temporary housing sites for homeless families. The state is scrambling to newly arriving migrants places to stay after hitting a state-imposed limit of 7,500 families in the state’s emergency homeless shelter system. Catholic Charities Boston is the first organization to be awarded a grant to provide temporary rooms to extremely low-income families with children and pregnant individuals. The grant will fund a site in greater Boston that opened Tuesday and can accommodate up to 27 families, or about 81 people, as they wait to enter the state’s emergency shelter system