Nationally, there are more than 2,300 families relying on this housing assistance. According to the Pioneer Valley Project, there are 40 families living at this hotel that evacuated Puerto Rico. Massachusetts received the second highest number of evacuees, only behind Florida.
On Wednesday, this group will meet with lawmakers who represent the Sunshine State and on Thursday, they’ll have a face-to-face with Massachusetts Senators Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren who are a part of the team that’s spearheading the housing victims of major disasters act.
Rosah said that she hopes the act will be activated, as it has before, but right now, there is concern.
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