Congratulations to Worcester Housing Authority on opening A Place to Live. As a proud partner, we are so pleased to see this project built. Thanks to the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC), City of Worcester, Massachusetts, the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and…
MASSterList’s Erin Tiernan spoke last week with Joyce Tavon, MHSA CEO, about Governor Maura Healey’s veto of $2.5 million that the Legislature had appropriated in the FY24 Budget for the Home & Healthy for Good line item (7004-0104). Read more at MASSterList.
Today Governor Healey vetoed $2.5 million that the Legislature had appropriated in the FY24 Budget for the Home & Healthy for Good line item (7004-0104). The impact: Cuts significant funding for new permanent supportive housing opportunities for people experiencing chronic or long-term homelessness. Home & Healthy for Good (HHG) provides critical flexible, “gap-filler” funding that…
Caitlin Golden, Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance’s Director of Public Policy, recently appeared on GBH News’ Talking Politics on alongside State Senator Lydia Edwards to discuss the housing crisis in Massachusetts with host Adam Reilly. Watch the full episode here!
Many thanks to Jenny Johnson at Comcast Newsmakers for meeting with Joyce Tavon, CEO of Massachusetts Housing & Shelter Alliance (MHSA) to discuss the homelessness crisis in the state, and the work MHSA is doing right now to find solutions. Watch the interview here: Or visit this link: https://comcastnewsmakers.com/Videos/2023/6/21/What-This-Massachusetts-Statewide-Alliance-Is-Doing-To-Solve-Homelessness
NBC News Boston has broadcast a series in two parts on the rise in homeless encampments in Massachusetts and the need for more supportive housing. The second part of the series (linked below) features Joyce Tavon, CEO of MHSA, and mentions the work and recent funding to the Massachusetts Alliance for Supportive Housing (MASH). “The…
Western Massachusetts Network to End Homelessness Director, Pamela Schwartz with MHSA Senior Director of Policy & Programs, Joyce Tavon and MHSA President & Executive Director, Joe Finn. On Monday, May 16, High Profile, New England Facilities Development News, featured MHSA’s Spring Event: Home for Good at Home Plate. The event honored Worcester City Manager…
MHSA’s President & Executive Director Joe Finn shared his opinion on the necessary shift homeless services must take, in the latest article from Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative Social Impact Review: “The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the failure of Massachusetts, as well as states across the country, to address the unique needs of people with…
WBUR reports the Worcester Housing Authority has received approval and funding from DHCD to build the first modular micro-units in Massachusetts to house chronically homeless individuals. The building will consist of 24 units for inviduals and one unit for a residential director. MHSA, who will be partnering on the project for our Home & Healthy for Good program, has…
PFS Tenant, Peter, standing outside his new home Last week Spare Change News, the nation’s oldest street newspaper covering issues of inequality, homelessness, culture and resistance interviewed MHSA’s President and Executive Director, Joe Fin, on the significance on MHSA’s PFS program selected as one of ten finalists for the Drucker Prize. Click here to…