Massachusetts is opening more overflow shelters to meet the needs of homeless families now that the state’s emergency shelter system is at maximum capacity. In October, Governor Maura Healey announced a cap of 7,500 families that could be served by the state’s emergency shelter system, which had previously guaranteed a place to stay to all families with children or pregnant women in the state experiencing homelessness. The United Way of Massachusetts Bay received a state grant of $5 million to give to nonprofits and charities to provide additional shelter beds in Boston, and now central Massachusetts, but there are no plans yet to open overflow shelters in western Massachusetts. There are approximately 800 families in western Massachusetts in emergency shelter, 22 News reported, and another 242 on the states waiting list.