Why are so many businesses on Boston's Mass. Ave. closing? - CBS News
Apr 23, 2024 · Rising costs are forcing small businesses located on Boston's Massachusetts Avenue to close.
Wu: 'Major' statewide partnership needed to shift crisis at Mass.
May 4, 2023 · The mayor addressed the situation around Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard — which has become the epicenter of the overlapping crises of addiction, homelessness, and mental health...
After Mass. and Cass crackdown, homeless community cast out …
Mar 6, 2024 · Ishmael Rodriguez slept in a tent for almost a year near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, or Mass. and Cass, the city’s longtime epicenter of homelessness and substance use disorder.
Mass. and Cass safety at top of mind this fall, mayor says - NBC …
Oct 2, 2024 · Improving the situation in the area of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, a problem spot for opioid use, sex trafficking and violence, has been a focus of city leaders for years
City Ordinance and Other Measures to Respond to Mass and Cass …
Sep 6, 2023 · To increase the availability of low-threshold housing for chronically unsheltered individuals who currently live in Atkinson Street encampment, the City plans to open 30 temporary, transitional beds at the Boston Public Health Commission’s campus at 727 Massachusetts Avenue.
Removal of tents, new transitional facility part of Boston Mayor ...
Aug 25, 2023 · Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said Friday she will be filing an ordinance with the Boston City Council that prohibits tents and tarps at the encampment around the intersection of Massachusetts...
Mass. and Cass: Wu acknowledges need for new approach - NBC …
Aug 3, 2023 · A day after Boston Mayor Michelle Wu warned the area around Melnea Cass Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue had reached a “new level” of public safety concern, lawmakers who represent the district pushed for law enforcement to …
Mass. and Cass in Boston - The Boston Globe
Jul 2, 2023 · On Atkinson Street, a short walk from Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, the epicenter of the dueling opioid and homelessness crises, overdoses are a harsh day-to-day reality.
Boston's Mass. and Cass Cleanup Begins, With Some Tents Removed
Nov 1, 2021 · The encampment near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard has grown over the last several months, and the city has said it is a public health risk, unsanitary and dangerous. But officials also promised that people wouldn't be kicked out before being offered support at least twice.
How residents and business leaders feel about Boston's actions at …
Nov 19, 2021 · For years, residents of Roxbury and the South End have been calling on state and local officials to address the growing humanitarian crisis around the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and...
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