Many children have been moved night to night in emergency placement homes, known as"hotline homes," or have been placed in those rented spaces.
Contracts show a price tag of $465,000 a year to operate the site, and that the DCF is also renting space in Boston and Springfield. "One of the most difficult things for me is in the morning, if the kid asks if they're coming back to my house or where they're going to be tonight," Bonney said."I am getting called, at a minimum, five times a week," she said."I get calls anywhere in the state, and I live close to the Cape. I get calls from the western part of the state. Kids are traveling up to two hours to get to my house for a place for the night.