Boston city workers began to clear tents Monday morning near the troubled intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue as part of an effort to enforce a new encampment ban across the city.
Boston city workers began to clear tents Monday morning near the troubled intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue as part of an effort to enforce a new encampment ban across the city.
Where do they expect these people to go?
In all fairness, this sounds much more humane than what’s been happening in some other areas.
While I can’t speak to the effectiveness of this, it’s at least better than the “Throw it all in a dumpster and tell them to leave without giving it any additional thought” plan that’s been executed elsewhere.
The problem is that once you set up the shanty towns, they will never go away. And as someone who was raised in central america, shanty towns is the last thing you want in your city
Okay, where are they supposed to go?
Put them in all of Blackrock’s empty houses. They’re probably gonna take a loss on them regardless anyways.
Somewhere else. Ideally with less drugs around
And that would be where specifically?
In freeindv’s backyard. Not joking here.
Nimbyism abounds and it’s half the problem.
For Boston specifically, they could rebuild the Long Island Bridge, which before its demolition was a usable footpath for addicts seeking treatment to get to Long Island, which at one point housed a hospital and even after the hospital’s closure offered facilities for those in need including a homeless shelter and rehabilitation programs.
The area the article discusses, called politely “Mass and Cass,” is also referred to as “methadone mile” and it does not really have comparable facilities to help those in need. Methadone mile sprang up when the BU medical center became the only real place where addicts can get treatment to try and wean off their drug addiction, and it’s a real problem even for the addicts as there is very easy access to genuine opiods.
Stressful street living + constant presence of dealers + no facilities besides a regulated hospital = a really fucking impossible way to kick your addiction.
Methadone mile needs to go. Boston also needs the neighboring town of Quincy to stop fighting the rebuilding of the Long Island Bridge.
That’s their problem to figure out
Them trying to figure it out has presented itself as what we have today.
Your lack of care regarding their wellbeing speaks to the person you are. A selfish, empathy lacking, judgmental idiot.
You are the problem, not homeless people.
Rewarding people for not working and sitting around and doing drugs all day is what leads to what you see in these cities. The more they don’t work and cause chaos, the more people rush to them with free shit and demands for them to get more money.
Rewarding you with any up votes encourages your self-righteousness to escalate.
Maybe it’s time you started reevaluating your selfishness and its hold on you.
Letting someone stay in a tent in one spot is rewarding them?
Would you consider that being rewarded if that was you?
What if they figure out they’ll just set up their tent elsewhere? Just keep kicking them out and repeating the cycle eternally? Because other than being cruel, I don’t see the point.
The city officials lack object permanence. As soon as the camps are cleared, homelessness no longer matters to them.
Shit take, brah. They’re moving these people into shelters, where they’ll receive services to help them get off of drugs and into a conventional life, which includes stable-ish housing.