One housing advocate made it clear to lawmakers on Monday: without a pandemic-era policy pausing eviction cases while an application for aid is pending, 'people would have been on the street.'
With Massachusetts in the throes of a housing crisis marked by stratospheric prices and insufficient supply, public housing was another common theme at the last budget hearing of the fiscal 2024 cycle.
into the state's public housing system, pointing to a 2005 Harvard study that estimated the true cost of operating state public housing was $105 million per year — or $184 million when adjusted for inflation. House Ways and Means Committee Vice Chair Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante said at the outset Monday that roughly 200 people had signed up to speak.
Several speakers urged lawmakers to steer more funding toward support services for residents who are deaf or hard of hearing. A few residents who themselves are deaf said the struggles they encountered Monday testifying via a remote interpreter — which often resulted in several minutes of delay and sudden stops when the livestream cut out — reflected the obstacles they face daily.
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