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Lawmakers have failed to move proposals to Governor Healey’s desk that would address some of the state’s most pressing issues.

New proposals to create a safe sleeping place for homeless people in Boston has raised alarm bells among locals that say it could turn into an open-air drug market. 

The shelter is part of a new strategy by city officials to respond to the myriad public health problems at Mass. and Cass, the city’s top public health official said during a virtual meeting on Tuesday.

During a Friday news conference, officials tried to strike a delicate balance between addressing growing concerns over violence and criminality in the area, and remaining empathetic to Boston’s most vulnerable, whose only home is the streets.

If built, the recovery campus would operate for three or four years until the city reopens its addiction treatment center on Long Island in Boston Harbor.

Once floated as the base of Boston’s ill-fated Olympics bid, the circle is effectively an island within the city.

An official marker honoring the civil rights leaders was unveiled Thursday at 396 Northampton St.