Legal Opinion
Garcia v. Dep't of Hous. & Cmty. Dev.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 11, 2018No. SJC-12507PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
**737Certain low income families in Massachusetts facing the harsh reality of homelessness are served by an emergency shelter program, run, since 2009, by the defendant Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). This case is before us on an interlocutory appeal by DHCD of a class-wide preliminary injunction concerning its operation of that shelter program. The preliminary injunction in essence prohibits DHCD from following, in certain circumstances, its stated policy regarding the use of motels.
The plaintiffs are among the roughly 3,500 people currently served by the emergency…
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