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Municipal leaders and advocates urge Ways and Means to fund MRVP, HomeBASE and RAFT to avert more homelessness
Summary
City and town officials, housing advocates and tenants appealed to the committee to increase state investments in rental vouchers, eviction-prevention programs and bridge subsidies for older adults, warning that new caps in the emergency shelter system have left families exposed.
Municipal leaders, homelessness advocates and tenants told the Ways and Means committee that the FY26 budget should prioritize rental-voucher funding and prevention programs to avert a surge in family homelessness.
"Our school budgets are not the only pressures municipalities feel," said Bill Murphy, Framingham public-health director. "Without state investments in RAP, MRVP, and HomeBASE, our local systems will be overwhelmed."
Speakers asked the committee to increase the Massachusetts Rental Voucher…
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