From Daily Mail: A migrant mother who has received $30,000 through a Massachusetts housing assistance program is now asking for more help.
Nadine, who declined to share her last name citing deportation fears, moved to the United States from Haiti in 2021, the Boston Globe reports. She has been living in a subsidized three-bedroom apartment in Dorchester, regarded as Boston’s most diverse neighborhood, with her four-year-old son for the past year.
Nadine received $30,000 in aid through Governor Maura Healey’s HomeBASE emergency shelter program which can be used towards monthly rent payments, security deposits, associated broker’s fees, furniture purchases and more.
Nadine is seeking help after using all of her finds in just 10 months, saying HomeBASE offers an up to two-year rental subsidy. Now, Nadine says she could wind up homeless. As she is out of work and her boyfriend is no longer living there.
Which HomeBASE unable to offer additional assistance, she’s turned to a refugee resettlement organization for help and aired her challenges to thee public.
The call for help was met with anger by some, who feel Americans get less support from the state Nadine receives.
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