Mass. is out of shelter space: Families no longer allowed to sleep at Logan Airport [Video]

(*This story was updated at 10:32 a.m. on Friday, June 28, 2024, to include more information.)

Messaging that “Massachusetts is out of shelter space,” the state will no longer allow families to sleep overnight at Logan Airport, the Healey administration announced Friday.

Instead, families currently sleeping at Logan who are on the emergency assistance shelter waitlist will be offered transfers to the state’s new safety-net system, which includes a recently opened site at the former Bay State Correctional Center in Norfolk.

The Norfolk site, which opened this week, will be able to accommodate 140 families at full capacity.

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Otherwise, families traveling to Massachusetts need to be prepared with a plan for housing that does not include Logan Airport or emergency assistance shelters, Emergency Assistance Director Gen. Scott Rice said.

“The administration has worked diligently in recent months to increase the number of families leaving shelter into more stable housing,” Rice said in …