BOSTON – Thursday, April 29, 2021 –
Representatives Jack Patrick Lewis, Carmine Lawerance Gentile, Maria Duaime Robinson worked to secure wins for Framingham and the MetroWest region when passing the Massachusetts House Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) budget. This budget responds to the needs of Framingham residents and makes investments that set the state on a path toward economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic. The statewide budget funded at $47.716 billion, the House s FY22 budget continues its strong commitment to cities and towns, and includes significant investments in education, supportive services for vulnerable populations, and workforce and economic development, among other priorities. This year s budget puts needed resources into the Commonwealth to combat the emotional, educational, physical, and economic hurdles we have faced throughout the COVID-19 crisis. With emphasis on our most vulnerable populations, this budget will allow Massachusetts to quickly recover and
how the heck did it happen to me? priscilla s boss connected them with l.a. family housing that provided them with rental subsidies and found one of the few landlords who offers affordable apartments. this is home for us, we have not had a home like this. priscilla got a promotion and they now pay their rent on their own. but, they are one of few success stories. in the county, there is a shortage of 500,000 affordable apartments for the homeless and those on the brink. there are thousands of people, let s say around the country. who are economically homeless. they kancan t save enough fo deposits so they just bounce around from hotel to hotel? hopefully not. we ll never completely eliminate
i think would shock a lot of people is that the vast majority of homeless now are families, right? why have these numbers exploded? well, there are a lot of reasons for it. new york has a specific problem. you know, not only is it not very affordable, but the bloomberg administration actually has cut various different programs that used to provide rental subsidies, partially due to state budget cuts and partially due to ideology. it s kind of almost a microcosm of some of the debates going on these days. for example, it would seem that when you look at this and the amount of money that s being spent for these horrible, horrible apartments, if you want to call them that, it s a custom made argument for conservatives who say, look, we re wasting too much money on social welfare programs. well, one could also say from a livable perspective perhaps that you could give poor people rental subsidies and they could go out and find apartments for themselves that might be nicer.