DORCHESTER — She won’t give her last name — claiming fears of deportation — but she had no problem going to the Boston Globe to complain that Massachusetts didn’t give her enough.

Nadine, a Haitian migrant who arrived in 2021, was handed $30,000 in taxpayer-funded housing aid through Governor Maura Healey’s HomeBASE program. That cash got her a three-bedroom apartment in Dorchester, moving expenses, and even donated furniture. It was supposed to last two years.

She blew through it in ten months.

Now, she’s in the news — saying she still needs help.

The Globe calls it a housing policy issue. But the truth is far more revealing: this isn’t just a failed program. It’s a failed priority.

The Real Story the Globe Won’t Print

The Boston Globe framed Nadine as a struggling single mom failed by an underfunded system. But what it won’t say is this:

She got more support than most Massachusetts families will ever see — and it still wasn’t enough.

Nadine’s rent was roughly $3,000. She paid a third. Taxpayers covered the rest. She used the HomeBASE cash for a broker’s fee, first and last month’s rent, furniture, and more. Then her boyfriend left, she lost her job, and now she’s turning to volunteer resettlement groups to fund her next move.

And still, she calls the state’s $30,000 giveaway a “dead end.”

Meanwhile, Massachusetts residents are stuck waiting in line, living paycheck to paycheck, getting nothing but excuses.

Healey’s Migrant Housing Machine

HomeBASE is now the state’s go-to way to clear migrants out of shelters and into apartments. It’s been funded with more than $57 million for 2026 alone. That’s on top of the $1 billion-plus Healey has spent on sheltering migrants since she declared a “state of emergency” in 2023.

Third-year extensions? Quietly canceled.

Hotel shelters? Touted as “closed ahead of schedule.”

But here’s the reality: Healey's team rushed to declare victory, while migrant families like Nadine’s burn through handouts and end up right back at square one — demanding more.

As of July, 1,500 families have left hotel shelters. Over one-third of those still in long-term housing are migrants, asylum seekers, or refugees. The Globe says the state isn’t doing enough.

Ask yourself: enough for who?

Two Systems, One State

If you’re a lifelong Massachusetts resident getting evicted, good luck. No $30,000 check. No 3-bedroom apartment. No U-Haul full of furniture. And no glowing profile in the Boston Globe.

But if you’re a newly arrived migrant? You’re fast-tracked, funded, and front-page news.

The Healey administration built a housing system for headlines — not for results. And the Globe is more than happy to play along.

Massachusetts spent $30,000 on one family — and still got blamed when it wasn’t enough. That’s not a policy failure. That’s the inevitable result of running a welfare state on autopilot.

Meanwhile, in the Real Massachusetts...

Ask a single mom in Revere how long she’s waited for a housing voucher.

Ask a veteran in Brockton how many times he’s been turned down for rent relief.

Ask anyone in Fall River if they’ve ever had the state cover their moving costs, rent, and furniture — just for them to say, “It wasn’t enough.”

They don’t get handouts. They don’t get sympathy. They sure don’t get the Globe.

This is what “equity” looks like under Maura Healey: migrants first, taxpayers last.

And if you dare to question it?

You’re the problem.