Dozens of migrant families spent the night outside the Wollaston MBTA station in Quincy, Massachusetts on Monday.

Charities said this was a symptom of the state’s shortage of emergency accommodation and the result of new regulations that came into force earlier this month.

The Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network (BIJAN) said 47 people – about half of them children – were sleeping outside on the concrete floor, on benches and on a nearby lawn.

This happened after BIJAN ran out of money and were no longer able to sponsor the hotel rooms as they had been doing for the past few nights.

“There is no place for us. You don’t do that. To me, it’s a lack of respect not to do that,” said Eisner Dervil, an immigrant from Haiti.

“The police came here early this morning and woke us up and told us we couldn’t stay here,” said Wisler Sol, another Haitian immigrant.

Their presence was noticed by passers-by and residents.

“Someone has to do something,” said a neighbor who asked not to be identified. “It has to be important to someone because this is a problem; it’s about children.”

Fahema Rahman, an immigrant herself, learned about the families and decided to help them with food donations. She said she expected more from local leaders.

“In America, babies shouldn’t have to sleep on the floor,” she said. “We have the smartest people in the country working here, we should be able to solve any problem.”

Last month, the governor banned families from staying overnight at Logan Airport.

The area at Boston Logan International Airport that at one point housed nearly 50 migrant families is now empty. The last families housed there were ordered by Governor Maura Healey to evacuate by Tuesday.

Earlier this month, she introduced stricter measures to ease the strain on the homeless system. Her office says this has helped, as 3,800 families received work permits, resulting in an average of 330 families being able to leave homeless shelters. However, it has also displaced more than 200 non-priority families from homeless shelters.

“Unfortunately, it turns out that we really need the support of volunteers now,” said Annie Gonzalez of BIJAN.

Gonzalez said BIJAN used grants and donations to house dozens of families displaced from government shelters in hotels for a few nights until funds ran out on Monday.

“The state of Massachusetts has an emergency fund and I don’t know what else they consider an emergency, but that’s what it looks like to me,” she said.

The governor’s office issued the following statement: “It is horrific that families were sleeping outdoors last night. We have asked the nonprofit organization that supports them to bring them to our Family Welcome Centers today so they can be referred to a temporary respite center.”

But with no immediate and lasting improvement in sight, worries and cooler weather are spreading.