Massachusetts Right to Shelter
A 1983 shelter guarantee strained to its limit.
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1 · The idealist case (in its proponents' own framing)
Guarantee emergency shelter to families.
2 · The realist counter-case
Critics cite cost and capacity.
3 · Predicted vs. measured — with caveats
FY25 ~$978M; caseload capped from a 7,600 peak; stay limit cut 9 to 6 months.
4 · Liberty check
A guarantee of shelter vs. fiscal capacity.
5 · The real tradeoff
A right colliding with capacity.
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