Boston vows to clear Mass and Cass of tents by Jan. 12; get their residents into housing and care

Mayor Wu contiguous announced a program to get everybody present surviving successful tents successful the Mass and Cass country connected with "appropriate services" by Jan. 12, aft which the metropolis volition "ensure the country remains wide of encampments."

In a statement, the mayor's bureau said public-health officials person recovered "dozens of low-threshold supportive lodging placements" that are either disposable present oregon volition beryllium by that deadline, including astatine the Roundhouse Hotel close astatine Mass and Cass, which volition person country for up to 60 people, on with 24/7 unit and lawsuit management, and temporary lodging structures present being installed connected the grounds of Shattuck Hospital disconnected Morton Street connected the Jamaica Plain/Mattapan line, which volition person country for 30 men - with entree to aesculapian attraction and lawsuit managers.

Once the tents are gone, "the metropolis volition support an ongoing presence, including outreach and thoroughfare cleaning truthful that further encampments bash not develop."

In the statement, Wu said:

With these actions, our extremity is to bring residents retired of the acold and into supportive housing, to alteration the presumption quo successful this country and citywide. Our squad is taking each imaginable enactment to alleviate the humanitarian situation astatine Mass Ave and Melnea Cass Boulevard and support this country wide of encampments moving forward.

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