Gov. Maura Healey’s administration no longer publishes a public, regular accounting of how much the state is spending in the current fiscal year on the emergency shelter system housing homeless families and pregnant women because a state law mandating the data expired.

In seven reports released since fiscal year 2026 started July 1, Healey officials quietly stopped including key sections that documented in real-time how much taxpayers had spent on shelter costs, programs designed to move families out of shelter, and municipal supports.

In place of the data, the Healey administration only notes that Beacon Hill Democrats approved $276 million in this year’s state budget for the shelter system, the average amount spent on families in shelter each week, and the total amount of cash spent fr

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