Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has filed an ordinance that would give police the authority to clear out homeless encampments, a measure aimed at cracking down on the crime occurring at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue.
For Boston, finding a solution to the humanitarian crisis playing out daily at Mass and Cass has been an endless loop of one step forward, two steps back. Now the city is taking three steps back.
State Rep. John Moran and Boston City Council President Ed Flynn met with leaders of the Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association at the corner of East Concord and Albany streets to survey a city plan to open a new shelter in the 700-block of Albany Street.
City representatives held a closed-door meeting with first responder unions to discuss how the mayor plans to address the uptick in violence occurring at Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard this summer, her office said.
Keeping the cleaning apparatus assigned to just the Mass and Cass area is not akin to the panic experienced during the AIDS crisis. It's just a careful consideration about how to best cope with an unsanitary encampment the Wu administration inherited and can't seem to fix.