The state of Massachusetts resettled thousands of migrant families into apartments at the expense of $30,000 per family to the taxpayers, but now many of the migrants cannot afford to pay their rent.
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The paper noted that many of the migrants have used up their $30,000 allotment before even being able to begin paying rent regularly on their own. The money went for moving, furniture, security deposits, and other living start-up costs. And for many migrants, that left them without enough time to gain legal employment that could allow them to afford rent payments.
The cash shortage sent many of the migrants to move right back out of their new apartments before they were able to stabilize their income. According to the program, the migrants are not required to pay the entirety of the rent on their own.
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The problem is, many of these families have been unable to gain jobs that can bring in enough cash to make paying rent sustainable. That means their $30,000 allotment runs out quickly as the fund pays most if not all of the monthly rent fees. And soon enough, that $30,000 allotment is eaten up and the families have to move right back out of their apartments in a matter of only a few months.
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Some of the migrant families that moved into the apartments have still not found gainful employment. And all of them are relying chiefly on their allotment. But when that runs out, they will be either on the streets or be left begging to be let back into the state-run emergency shelter system, the same system the state is proudly calling a success and advertising it as being shut down.
Time will tell, but for many of these families, being ushered out of the free emergency shelter system and into a HomeBASE apartment will just be a short term, unsustainable move from one place to another. In the end, HomeBASE may be a chimera that leaves the migrants no better off in the long run.
