City workers began moving tents and people away from the intersection as part of the mayor’s plan to remove encampments and ban tents across the city.

Boston city workers began to clear tents Monday morning near the troubled intersection of Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue as part of an effort to enforce a new encampment ban across the city.

  • KoboldCoterieEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    In all fairness, this sounds much more humane than what’s been happening in some other areas.

    Outreach workers, police officers and city employees are working to take down the more than 75 tents, place personal items in storage and move some 90 people in the area into shelters.

    They referred her to one of several nearby shelters where some 100 extra beds have been set aside for those affected by the clearing.

    City workers are currently focusing on connecting people with treatment, shelter or family reunification […]

    While I can’t speak to the effectiveness of this, it’s at least better than the “Throw it all in a dumpster and tell them to leave without giving it any additional thought” plan that’s been executed elsewhere.