Expand Bridge Subsidies for Older Adults Facing Housing Instability: Organizational Endorsement Form for the 2025-2026 Bill + FY27 Budget Campaign

Join the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless in taking action to expand a bridge subsidy program for older adults facing housing instability!

Bill campaign details:
We ask for your support for An Act promoting housing stability for older adults across the Commonwealth.  This bill has been filed for the 2025–2026 legislative session by Representative Shirley Arriaga as House Bill 4015: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H4015 and by Senator Pat Jehlen as Senate Bill 475: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S475 

The older adult bridge subsidy bill would expand a bridge subsidy program for low-income older adults, aged 60 years and older, facing housing instability. A version of the program currently is funded through the FY26 state budget (line item 7004-0107) as a pilot in the City of Somerville. The expanded program would allow eligible older adults from across the Commonwealth to remain in place while they await approval for long-term subsidized housing through programs such as the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program (MRVP), Housing Choice Voucher Program (Section 8), and state-funded and federally funded public housing. Low-income older adults participating in the bridge subsidy program would pay 30% of their income towards rent, mortgage, or other housing financial obligations, with the bridge subsidy making up the difference.

The bill also would create a steering committee to help guide the expansion of the bridge subsidy program. The state’s Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities (EOHLC) would lead the steering committee, which would include key stakeholders such as older adults with lived experience of housing instability, providers, advocates, legislators, and a representative from the state’s Executive Office of Aging and Independence (AGE). For more information, see the bill fact sheet here.

Budget campaign details (7004-XXXX (new line item) and 7004-0107):
Funding request: $10,000,000

Language requests: Expand access to bridge subsidies for up to 1,000 older adults, aged 60 or older, facing housing instability to allow them to remain in place while they await approval for public housing or a subsidy through programs such as the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program. Low-income older adults participating in the bridge subsidy program would pay 30% of their income towards rent, with the bridge subsidy making up the difference in the total rent, up to 110% of the fair market rent. The bridge subsidy program would be administered by the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities in collaboration with the Executive Office of Aging and Independence (AGE). For FY26, $220,000 was included in the Local Housing Programs Earmarks line item, 7004-0107, for a pilot for older adults in Somerville, up from $100,000 in FY25.

Please share this form with other organizations that may be able to endorse the Older Adult Bridge Subsidy campaign: https://tinyurl.com/bridgesubs2526

Take action with us to prevent older adult homelessness! Thank you for your collaboration.

Learn more by contacting the Coalition: julia@mahomeless.org or kelly@mahomeless.org.
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Organizational Endorsement for Bill Campaign *
Will your organization be endorsing the 2025–2026 older adult bridge subsidy bill? Endorsers will be listed on campaign materials, receive campaign updates, and participate in advocacy activities.
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