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Pittsfield Begins Master Vision Planning for Pontoosuc Lake Park
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Pittsfield Parks Commission Suggests New Location for Pump Track
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Pittsfield Parks Commission Approves Musical Events
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City Of Pittsfield, Camping In City Parks Not An Option
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Emails obtained by WAMC News using the Freedom of Information Act show how the city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts developed a strategy to remove unhoused people from public parks in fall 2020 – and why the unfinished plan was scrapped just before it was set to go into effect.
The chaos of 2020 caused some of Pittsfield’s unhoused population to choose to live in homemade encampments in city parks rather than risk contracting COVID-19 in city shelters. Michele Mathews, a city resident living rough in Pittsfield, says the shelters posed other threats as well:
“The staff, albeit really nice people, some of them were sicker than us, she told WAMC. Some of them approached females, you know, for money. And I found a man in my bed. And my husband, 25 years legally married, couldn t even sleep on the same side of the building as me, but other men could in the same corridor as us.”