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Updated on February 18, 2021 at 11:41 pm NBC Universal, Inc. With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to grip the city, a senior leader at the Boston Public Health Commission is carrying out her duties remotely from more than 5,000 miles away. The NBC10 Investigators have learned the commission’s medical director, Dr. Jennifer Lo, relocated with her family to Hawaii in November 2020. Download our mobile app for iOS to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Lo remained in her position at BPHC, and has worked remotely over the winter, advising the commission during a wave of new C...

Leadership to the mayor's homeless programs, homeless initiatives. >> working with the coalition for the homeless we have been coordinating with our agencies that have been working with the homeless outreach teams and shelters. the majority of the homeless are off of the streets and are in area shelters. we' we've worked closely with store hope as well as salvation army who have around 500 more homeless individuals than normal in their shelters. homeless individuals have been going to their regular shelters, including the george r. brown. four days ago the sheriff's department homeless outreac...

Being a veteran yourself, now in congress, how do you feel? >> i think we could be doing so much better, rachel. i do think we're going better for iraq and afghanistan than we did for vietnam veterans, but that was a pretty low bar. we have over 2 million veterans and we're not live willing up to the promises we've made of them. we can do better. we're not providing the jobs that we need to give to them. we're not helping them with housing, sequestration is going to cut homeless programs. i think we've done better than we have in a long time. we've got a long way to go. >> on the issue of the ...

People have been bemoaning the effects, l.a. specifically, how it may affect l.a.x., how widespread are the concerns in los angeles, in the southland? >> well, the concerns are very widespread. i think the truth is, as you all have been reporting, is that we don't know what the impact is. l.a. is looking at a hit of about $is 15 million, which is a hit they could probably manage during normal times, but as you know they've been flirting with fiscal insolvency, so money is rately tight. they're looking at potential kits to homeless programs, housing programs, police hiring, so this really has b...

Technically enough money to build 145,000 homes, at $200,000 apiece. >> it might make more sense to give them a check and let them get housing on their own or get mental health benefits but the way it is now when you have the different government agencies administering the same program, you have government waste. >> given the array of the socio-pathologies, and hardships and circumstances that lead to and perpetuate homelessness, some say an overlapping multiagency approach is precisely what is needed. >> the fact that we have different federal agencies doing different programs is a decision t...