Document Type
Fact Sheet
Publication Date
11-2005
Abstract
Ninety percent of the 1,100 families who utilize the state's shelter system annually are headed by women, as are approximately 20% of the 19,000-29,000 individuals who stay in Massachusetts emergency shelters each year. In total, a minimum of 5,000 women and 2,000 children annually stay in Massachusetts homeless shelters.
These figures do not include over 3,000 women in domestic violence shelter (60% of whom enter shelter with their children), not the 50% of families seeking emergency shelter who are turned away each year. Over a period of three years, women also make up a quarter of Boston's 1,400 street dwellers: homeless people who reside on the streets, rather than staying in shelters (approximately 350 women).
Recommended Citation
Kahan, Michelle, "Women and Homelessness in Massachusetts" (2005). Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy. 40.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cwppp_pubs/40
Comments
Fact Sheet No. 4, by the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy and the Center for Social Policy.