If you were paying attention, this shouldn’t come as a big surprise i.e. Healey’s new proposals to bring some fiscal and policy sanity to the state’s right-to-shelter law, via new residency requirements and other reforms that could limit, if not end, temporary housing for just-arrived migrants. … I wish the recommended residency requirement was more than three months. But at least it’s a step in the right direction. … Healey has been hinting at fundamental changes for months now, so I’m not so sure Republicans can claim they were the first to call for new residency rules, etc. … My mind hippity-hops to the old only-Nixon-could-go-to-China adage. In this case, it’s only-a-progressive-could-reform-the-shelter-law. And give Healey credit for trying to do so. … Note: This is an odd one, via WBUR: “Questions swirl around departure of Healey’s shelter chief.”