A special commission tasked with offering solutions to the state’s overwhelmed emergency housing assistance program voted on Tuesday to approve a report with a series of recommendations, but no clear roadmap.
Hannah Edelheit
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Emergency shelter system should move away from one-size-fits-all model, officials say
The state’s emergency shelter system, hit with an influx of migrant families, should seek financial stability by shifting away from a one-size-fits-all model and reducing reliance on hotels and motels, according to members of a state commission studying the system.
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Political Notebook: Mixed messages in Mass. | An Election Day tradition | Crypto cash
Voters may be dissatisfied with the Great and General Court, but most House and Senate members won reelection with little effort – in many cases because they had no opponent.
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Warren trounces GOP’s Deaton on her way to third term
Warren sought to nationalize the race by arguing a vote for her GOP opponent was a vote for Republican control of the US Senate.
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Single stairwell buildings could be next frontier in housing reform
The report estimates that doing away with the second stairwell could cut construction costs by 15 to 25 percent and add about 130,000 new homes on undeveloped small- to mid-sized parcels near public transit in the Greater Boston area.
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Proposed Red Line access tunnel at Alewife stirs asbestos concerns
A June test of the surrounding soil found asbestos fibers in 56 of the 148 samples in the first six feet of the soil at the site. Asbestos was not found in the “deeper natural soil.”
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Brookline generational tobacco ban catching on in Mass.
Rather than setting a minimum age to buy tobacco and nicotine products, generational bans bar anyone born after a certain date from purchasing the products. As the name implies, the generational ban means tobacco and nicotine products will be off-limits forever to a younger generation within the geographical area covered by the ban.