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Boston's 'Methadone Mile' is finally cleared: Homeless drug addicts are moved to COTTAGES by new Democrat mayor Michelle Wu
2022-01-14
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • city of Boston has started to remove the remaining tents at the former heavily populated Mass and Cass intersection homeless encampment

  • Destruction of the site began on Wednesday in an effort to get the area's homeless population off of the streets

  • Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, who took office in November, pledged to find alternative housing options for the city's homeless population

  • The Mass and Cass encampment has provided shelter for hundreds over the past few years for those struggling with homelessness and drug addiction

  • A city survey from December saw 145 residents living at the intersection

  • Wu has since moved more than 100 into alternative housing as of Wednesday
Posted by:Skidmark

#6  And 100 more will move in to re-fill the "cleared" area.

I love it when politicians make it this blindingly obvious that they understand nothing at all about cause and effect or the motivations of human behavior.
Posted by: Crusader   2022-01-14 10:56  

#5  Sheter, I don't believe it will take that long.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-01-14 08:21  

#4  And in next month's news, the evil city of Boston created a hell on earth as the cottages are now full of garbage, have the walls kicked in, toilets smashed, and open air drug markets operating. None of it is the residents' fault, now for sports...
Posted by: Sheter the Lesser9291   2022-01-14 01:11  

#3  Methadone Mile
Is that an annual Boston race?
Like on the anniversary of David "Fvck Off and Die" Kennedy's overdose?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-14 00:19  

#2  City of Boston
41st Annual Homeless Census
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-01-13 09:42  

#1  Arnold Schwarzenegger donates 25 tiny homes to homeless California veterans
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-01-13 09:39  

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