The number of families in emergency shelters in Massachusetts has dropped by 30 percent since July of last year. 

The number of families in shelters peaked at 76 hundred last July, and is now down to around 53 hundred. 

The costs to taxpayers for housing families in emergency shelters this year is expected to surpass a billion-dollars.  The state spent 894-million-dollars on the shelter program in the 2024 fiscal year.