A recent state study says that Dartmouth and other communities are paying big to host homeless families from around Massachusetts.
The program pays hotels and motels to shelter homeless families temporarily, while host communities and hometowns split various expenses...
By now, Massachusetts wasn't supposed to have any homeless families.
In 2008, Gov. Deval Patrick set a goal of virtually eliminating family homelessness in five years. The program's aim was to better detect when families were on the verge of falling into homelessness _ and then moving in swiftly with aid.
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