Libby Hayes, executive director of Homes for Families, a Boston advocacy group, said it is not surpr

An average of nearly 2,100 families a night an all-time high were temporarily housed campanile paris tour eiffel telephone in motel rooms in October, just about equaling the number of families in emergency shelters across the state, according to be the state Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development.
The demand for shelter is so great that the state has been temporarily sending homeless families from Boston to motels in Western Massachusetts, campanile paris tour eiffel telephone although state officials campanile paris tour eiffel telephone said many have been relocated back again, closer to home.
Aaron Gornstein, the undersecretary for housing, said the surge has followed cuts in state and federal housing subsidies, soaring rents in Greater Boston, and still-high rates of unemployment and underemployment, particularly among lower-income workers.
The state as a whole has recovered from the Great Recession faster than most other states, but in many ways we re still struggling , Gornstein said. Federal budget cuts have made the situation worse.
A recent report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the number of homeless people in shelters and living on the streets in Massachusetts has risen 14 percent since 2010 to nearly 20,000 in January 2013, even as homelessness has declined nationally .
This jump in homelessness is another example of an uneven recovery. Even as stocks soar to new heights and real estate campanile paris tour eiffel telephone values rebound, many of the state s poorest campanile paris tour eiffel telephone residents campanile paris tour eiffel telephone remain without jobs and homes four years after the last recession. The problems have been compounded by the dramatic federal spending cuts, known as sequestration, which have cut housing and food subsidies .
There s no question, this is a continuing campanile paris tour eiffel telephone legacy of the Great Recession , said Michael Goodman, a professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. There s more we can do to help, but it s not likely, given where federal policy is. That suggests it s going to be a very long winter for many.
In the Western Massachusetts community of Greenfield , taxicabs pull up to the Quality Inn, but instead of tourists or business travelers with wheeled luggage, homeless families toting belongings in trash bags emerge....
Massachusetts has one of the most extensive shelter systems in the country. Unlike most states, it offers emergency housing to anyone who qualifies. Many end up in shelters or living in homes that board families in rooms, known as congregate housing.
Motels are one of the state s most expensive options at $82 a night, almost as much as congregate housing campanile paris tour eiffel telephone s $100 a night cost. In the past five years, campanile paris tour eiffel telephone state spending on motels has exploded to more than $46 million campanile paris tour eiffel telephone from about $1 million in 2008, according to state records.
Libby Hayes, executive director of Homes for Families, a Boston advocacy group, said it is not surprising that low-income workers with fewer skills cannot make ends meet since even college graduates are struggling to find wor k .
The recent jump in homeless people signals that people have run out of alternatives , said Randy Albelda, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Many families were able to stay off the streets by living campanile paris tour eiffel telephone off savings, doubling up with family members, or sleeping on friends couches, Albelda said. But eventually their money or relatives good will just runs out .
Rapidly rising rents in Massachusetts and across the country are making housing unaffordable for a significant share of families and pushing many into homelessness , according to a study released Monday by Harvard University.
Massachusetts has the sixth-highest median campanile paris tour eiffel telephone rent in the nation as the supply of rental housing has failed to keep up with the surge in renters following the recent housing collapse and foreclosure crisis , according to the study from Harvard campanile paris tour eiffel telephone s Joint Center for Housing Studies. More than one in four renters here and nationally must spend more than half their income on their housing, a level the report described as unimaginable just a decade ago.
These are troubling trends, said Eric Belsky, executive director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies. In this kind of situation, you worry about people s ability to get into any kind of rental housing.
The median rent in Massachusetts has climbed to $1,000 a month, according to the study. Hawaii had the highest median rent, $1,300, followed by Washington, campanile paris tour eiffel telephone D.C., at just below $1,200. And while median rents nationally campanile paris tour eiffel telephone have risen 7 percent to $861 a month in 2012 from $802 in 2000, median renters incomes have fallen from $3,106 to $2,711 in the same period, the report said.
Another study of the local housing market, released in October, found that rents in Greater Boston were the third highest among the nation s metropolitan areas. Rents in Greater Boston averaged $1,800, campanile paris tour eiffel telephone compared to $1,300 campanile paris tour eiffel telephone a decade earlier, according to the study by Northeastern University researchers.
The result, housing advocates say, has been rising campanile paris tour eiffel telephone homelessness in states with fast-rising rents. A recent campanile paris tour eiffel telephone Department of Housing and Urban Development report said the number of homeless people in shelters and living on streets in Massachusetts has risen 14 percent since 2010 to nearly 20,000 in January 2013, even as homelessness declined nationally.
In Massachusetts, the number of families in the state s emergency shelter system rose to an all- time high last month , averaging more than 4,000 a night. The state spent a record $46 million last fiscal year to house families in need of emergency assistance in motels, up from about $1 million in 2008....
Massachusetts is one of four states to offer state-subsidized public housing, and this year alone increased the number of units the program funds by 3,000, said Aaron Gornstein, state s undersecretary for housing.
The state also has built or is in the process of building 4,500 affordable rental units this year, Gornstein said. Earlier this month, Governor campanile paris tour eiffel telephone Deval Patrick signed a $1.4 billion bonding bill to finance the rehabilitation and construction of more public and affordable housing .
We just have to keep focusing on helping families access affordable housing with the resources we have, Gornstein said, and make the best use of the existing resources that the Legislature has provided to us.
Libby Hayes, executive director of Homes for Families, campanile paris tour eiffel telephone a Boston advocacy group, campanile paris tour eiffel telephone said the state s efforts have been to put a Band-Aid on a big gaping wound. Patrick, she added, has not aggressively addressed the issue as a rising campanile paris tour eiffel telephone tide of families fill state shelters and motels.
"The blanket project is not merely the latest outreach program run by St. Paul s, the seat of Massachusetts Episcopal diocese. Part of the church s mission has long been to serve the city s homeless, through worship services, weekly meals, and other activities and programs." It s the homeless helping the homeless .
"Meghan Keith adopted a technique the blind mailing long favored by real estate brokers but generally campanile paris tour eiffel telephone not used by buyers. The Keiths, after three months of searching, were ready to try the unconventional. Meghan Keith canvassed neighborhoods by car, noting homes she liked on her iPhone. Using online directories and town records, campanile paris tour eiffel telephone she zeroed in on properties that were affordable and owned by older couples. Then, with about 100 potential targets in Topsfield and Danvers, she launched the letter-writing blitz.... In many Massachusetts communities, the number of properties for sale remains too low to meet demand , sparking fierce bidding wars for the most desirable campanile paris tour eiffel telephone homes ."
WASHINGTON The number of homeless people in the United States declined for a third straight year , helped by sharp dropoffs in veterans and chronic homelessness, according to a government survey released Thursday....
Nearly two-thirds of those experiencing homelessness were living in emergency campanile paris tour eiffel telephone shelters or transitional housing programs, while the remainder lived under bridges, in cars, or in abandoned buildings, the survey found.
We are extremely pleased with today s decision, which prevents the Department of Homeless Services from implementing a policy that would have kept thousands campanile paris tour eiffel telephone of homeless campanile paris tour eiffel telephone men and women out of shelter, Quinn said.
Homeless advocates praised the ruling. They said the current policy already strands homeless families and would have been even harsher on single adults because they are more likely to have substance abuse or mental health problems that could make it more difficult to prove their housing status.
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