It blamed an increase in the number of homeless ex-convicts and young adults. But House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran warned Saturday that the shelters should not expect steep increases in funding.
People continue to bear the primary responsibility for their own lives.
Extrapolating the results of the survey to the entire shelter system, the survey estimated that about 900 ex-convicts moved into the Massachusetts shelters. But we think this number is a dramatic figure. All rights reserved.