[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Plans were announced in August to clear the years-old, sprawling encampments in the Mass and Cass area where violence has been escalating and drug use is rampant
- Residents told of the start of process to dissolve tent city at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard from November 1
- Boston city workers began the first of three days of cleaning on Monday to remove more than 75 tents near the troubled intersection
Homelessness has long been an issue in the neighborhood. In January 2022, after notifying people living in the area, city public works employees driving bulldozers loaded tents, tarps and other detritus, including milk crates, wooden pallets and coolers, into trash trucks to be hauled away.
Since then, more than 500 people who were living at the encampment have gone through the city's six low-threshold housing sites, and 149 have moved into permanent housing, city officials said.
Violence in the Mass. and Cass area has reached 'new level of public safety alarm,', Mayor Wu said.
There was an average of seven assaults per week in the neighborhood in which is more than double the average in the rest of the city. |