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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.
LOWELL Community Teamwork Inc. announced Wednesday that it was awarded a $125,000 MassDevelopment grant to help fund the organization’s Entrepreneurship Center through the Transformative Development Initiative Lowell ACRE Capacity Improvement Program.
LOWELL Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts last August due to the rapidly rising number of migrant families in need of shelter and services. Some of those families are coming to or already have arrived in Lowell. Here is a quick rundown of what’s currently known about the families who have been moving to Lowell since early January.