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State To End Program Placing Homeless Families in Woburn Hotels
The program has placed families in two Woburn hotels.
The state Dept. of Housing and Community Development plans to end a program that places homeless families in hotels, including two in Woburn, according to the Boston Globe. The program, which started during the 1980s, would end by June 30, 2014. According to the most recent state figures, Woburn housed about 50 families in the Holiday Inn and Extended Stay Hotel in 2011. However, when the Holiday Inn was revamped into a Crowne Plaza, the program was discontinued at that particular hotel. With the closing of the program in 2013, the state plans to bolster efforts to find permanent housing and prevent homelessness, according to the Globe. However, housing advocates fear permanent housing for program participants may never be found, …
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9:50 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
Why don't we focus on getting the prostitutes out of the Red Roof Inn before we worry about throwing homeless people on the streets? more ›