GOP lawmakers want to amend the "right-to-shelter" law, let police work more closely with ICE, and increase transparency from Gov. Healey.

BOSTON - The heavily scrutinized right-to-shelter law in Massachusetts would change significantly under a new proposal shared by Gov. Maura Healey Wednesday. The policy that became law in 1983 guarantees emergency housing to homeless families and pregnant women.

House and Senate Republicans came together to call for urgent reform of Massachusetts' shelter system in a Tuesday morning press conference.

Days after Gov. Maura Healey publicly signaled openness to changing the state’s decades-old right to shelter law, Republican state lawmakers Tuesday offered a round of reforms aimed at tightening the state’s response to an influx of migrants, setting up a potential political struggle over how to proceed.

Less than a week after condemning security concerns surrounding a lack of background checks performed at shelters, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is proposing changes to the state's right-to-shelter law.

Beacon Hill Republicans on Tuesday called for wholesale changes to Massachusetts’ shelter system, declaring it “unsustainable” and a threat to public safety. “We’ve now reached a crisis point,” Senate Minority Leader Bruce E.

House and Senate Republicans on Tuesday proposed changes to “course-correct” the state shelter system amid public safety concerns and mounting costs, while calling on Gov. Maura Healey to step up the frequency of her communications with legislators.