A double bed, a folded cot, one chair and a small table use up nearly all the floor space in a Braintree motel room that Dianne Freeman and her 20-year-old son have called home for close to a year. Freeman and her son are one of more than 2,000 homeless families living in motels paid for by the state. At $82 a night per family, Massachusetts is spending $1 million a week to shelter all these families in motels. Last May, their numbers totaled 1,222 families. -
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