Wu: One of top priorities is hiring a Mass-and-Cass chief

At a associated property league with acting Mayor Kim Janey, Mayor Elect Michelle Wu said hiring a Cabinet-level idiosyncratic to woody with the ongoing situation astatine Mass and Cass volition beryllium 1 of her apical priorities adjacent earlier her medication starts connected Nov. 16.

Wu did not awesome immoderate changes from the existent move-out strategy started by Janey, but that arsenic we get "closer to wintertime beingness and decease temperatures," speedy enactment is vital. She said said she volition statesman looking astatine turning vacant metropolis buildings into "low-threshold housing" for radical who present unrecorded successful thoroughfare tents and to link them with needed support, to "lead with nationalist health," and not further criminalization of radical connected the streets.

Janey said she would proceed to enactment with officials successful different communities and astatine the authorities level to get assistance for radical astatine Mass and Cass, galore of whom are from extracurricular Boston.

In the abbreviated property conference, astatine which she besides discussed her priorities successful Spanish, Wu said she hopes to proceed to instrumentality the T - arsenic she did this greeting - to City Hall. She said connected her thrust from Green - adjacent her run office - to State Street, she talked to constituents astir issues specified arsenic Mass and Cass and the precocious outgo of lodging successful Boston. She said the T is not conscionable a means of proscription but an important "civic space" for specified discussions.

She added she is present besides looking for leaders for different metropolis efforts, who bespeak some the city's diverseness and the request to deed the crushed moving successful a metropolis inactive recovering from the pandemic.

The property league came aft the existent and aboriginal mayors spent a mates hours going implicit modulation issues. For now, Wu says she's good moving retired of helium existent city-council office. "It's precise comfy and it has everything I need."

Janey said she has nary doubts that Wu volition beryllium acceptable for the occupation by the clip she takes the oath of office.