Families who remain in Western Massachusetts hotels nearly nine months after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, headed to Washington D.C. early Wednesday to press federal lawmakers for help in finding long-term housing.
About 100 Western Massachusetts residents displaced by the September 2017 storm boarded D.C.-bound buses outside the Clarion Hotel in West Springfield for what organizers cast as a last-ditch effort to push for housing solutions before evacuees lose Federal Emergency Management Agency temporary shelter benefits.
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