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State officials say 68 families will be transferred from a shelter site at the Bedford Plaza Hotel to the Lowell Inn and Conference Center by the end of the month.
LOWELL – In the next couple of weeks, some of the city's most vulnerable residents will move into a building with 19 new permanent supportive housing units. It’s a bold new approach in Lowell to a housing and homelessness crisis that has impacted municipalities across the commonwealth.
LOWELL The state’s Emergency Housing Assistance Program biweekly report of Feb. 12 shows that of the 7,506 families in the shelter system, a little more than half are families with children who entered the country as migrant, refugees or asylum seekers. Homeless families with children from the commonwealth comprise the approximately 3,700 remaining families.