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The programs had seemed to help reduce the numbers of people living on the streets while facing mental health and substance use disorders, and address problems such as increasing violence in the encampment.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu delivered her State of the City speech at MGM Music Hall on Tuesday night.

City officials and health care professionals on Wednesday toured the now-dilapidated facilities. Inside, the buildings are in an eerie state of disrepair, nine years after being abandoned when the Long Island bridge shut down.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, her two sons, mental health specialists and substance abuse providers took a boat ride to Long Island in Boston Harbor Wednesday<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/boston-officials-tour-long-island-substance-abuse-recovery-center-ahead-of-planned-renovation-project/">Read More</a>

The event was organized by New Beginnings Re-Entry Services, which runs a residential program in Roxbury for women who have been recently released from incarceration.

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.

Officials with Gov. Maura Healey’s administration on Wednesday announced a coalition led by Boston Medical Center (BMC) has been awarded provisional designation to develop a recovery campus on the existing 13-acre Shattuck Hospital site on Morton Street. The plans call for more than 400 units of supportive housing and 120 emergency beds.

The medical center also proposed the development of a new clinical center and increased green space for residents.

Keisa Rivera provides counseling to the most entrenched individuals at Mass. and Cass. She wants you to know her story.