An op-ed by MHSA CEO Joyce Tavon was published in CommonWealth Beacon on the U.S. Supreme Court’s City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson decision: Don’t penalize people for being poor and lacking housing: Supreme Court decision addresses a symptom of homelessness but provides no real solution As Joyce points out in the op-ed: Massachusetts…
An op-ed by MHSA CEO Joyce Tavon was published in Banker & Tradesman about the importance of supportive housing as a solution to homelessness: Looming Homelessness Crisis Demands Supportive Housing Ramp-Up Read the article here: https://bankerandtradesman.com/looming-homelessness-crisis-demands-supportive-housing-ramp-up/
The Boston Globe recently published a letter to the editor written by MHSA CEO Joyce Tavon and MHSA Chief Policy & Strategy Officer Caitlin Golden. Read the letter here: Ending homelessness — for veterans, indeed for all
We at MHSA are pleased to see Action Inc. in Gloucester utilize their $1M grant from the Massachusetts Alliance for Supportive Housing (MASH) to create permanent supportive housing to bring their most vulnerable neighbors home. MASH is a collaboration of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA), United Way of Massachusetts Bay (UWMB), and the…
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…
