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In June 2020 -there were 3,096 families with children and pregnant individuals in Massachusetts’ Emergency Assistance (EA) shelter program. 13 of these families with children were being sheltered in motels. (The number decreased to 11 families in motels as of September 22, 2020.) This number does not count those families who are doubled up, living in unsafe conditions or sleeping in their cars. Click here for nightly data on the EA program from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development, and here for the June 2020 monthly EA-related data (PDF) and the March 2020 monthly EA-related data (PDF), including the reasons families needed to enter the shelter system. Available quarterly data from DHCD, from FY’13 to the present, also is available through this link. 2019:
18,471 people in Massachusetts were counted as experiencing homelessness during the January 2019 point-in-time count conducted by the HUD Continua of Care across the state. (Part 1 of the 2019 HUD AHAR was released in January 2020.)

 12,212 – Families with children
   6,259 – Adults over the age of 24 in households without children Of the   18,471 - counted as experiencing homelessness,
      917 – Identified as Veterans
      480 – Identified as Accompanied Youth – age 24 and younger 1,392 –             Identified as Experience Chronic Homelessness

1/11/22 - With nowhere else to go, some Massachusetts families are sleeping in the Emergency Room. Click on link below to view: