Gov. Maura Healey’s administration spent just over $940 million on emergency family shelters and related services last fiscal year, but the final total is projected to increase by tens of millions of dollars more as officials work to settle payments.

A report released Monday shows taxpayers have shouldered $942 million between July 1, 2024, and June 30 to prop up shelters housing homeless families with children and pregnant women. An immigration surge in 2022, 2023, and 2024 strained the system, but caseloads have dropped drastically since January.

Healey’s housing and budget offices said the state has shelled out $801.5 million on “direct shelter” costs, including for long and short-term shelter sites, services for those locations, payments to National Guard troops working at shelters, and overflow and clinical assessment sites.

State officials have spent another $98.7 million on “exits” with cash largely funneled to HomeBase, a housing assistance program that has seen a five-fold increase in demand since Healey took office in 2023.

The Healey administration is on track to spend at least $1.8 billion over the last two fiscal years on the emergency assistance program, which was created under a 1980s law to provide temporary housing to families in need.

There were 3,262 families enrolled in the program as of July 24, according to state data. The shelter system housed more than 7,600 families roughly a year ago.

More than 3,100 families were located in “traditional” shelters, another were living at short-term sites, and 26 were in hotels and motels serving as shelters, the data showed.

Healey has shuttered nearly all of the 100-plus hotel and motel shelter sites, with only two “active hotels” left as of July 24, according to the report. Housing families in hotels and motels could often run taxpayers hundreds of dollars a night, the Herald previously reported.

The average length of stay in the emergency assistance shelter program is 352 days for long-term sites and 60 days for short-term locations, according to the report.

State officials are spending an average of $3,870 a week on each family in the shelter system, the report said.

Healey has promised to cut the cost of running the emergency shelter program, and the state’s budget for this fiscal year only appropriates $276 million for the system. But some Beacon Hill Democrats have left the door open to greenlighting more spending if the need arises.