According to HUD, since the COVID-19 pandemic started the unhoused population living in shelters has gone down, while the unsheltered population has gone up
“I think that the pandemic exacerbated many things, as we know, on so many levels” says Joyce Tavon, CEO of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance.The NBC10 Boston Investigators spent the last few months in Lowelldata released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Tavon says the main driver of homelessness is the lack of housing. She says the state is short 200,000 units of housing across all income levels that are needed over the next 10 years.According to the U.S. Census, Massachusetts has the lowest rental vacancy rate in the country at only 2.8%. In April, the Massachusetts Alliance for Supportive Housing received $15 million in funding to create 360 units of housing across the state for people experiencing homelessness. That money will be spread across 18 communities.“Where someone has a roof over their head, a safe place and it's permanent and they have services. The typical retention rate in housing is 85 to 90%” she said.
“My life has changed tenfold,” he said. “It's surreal that you can look down onto lives on that corner and know that at any given moment I could have died down there.”
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