Officials to discuss plans to use shuttered Roxbury hospital for residential programs displaced from Long Island

It is hard. People are in need of a shelter, but you don't see this being propsed in affluent neighborhoods of Boston. Security should be addressed in a realistic and dignified way for those living at the proposed shelter and the neighbors. Neighbors which include, by my count, at least 4 Boston Public Schools within .5 miles. BLA, Trotter, Higginson- Lewis and the Rllis.
And does it really take 2-3 years to build a bridge?

yea typical place it in a neighborhood that is already in need of help and place homeless people ( that are most likely druggies) where they are just going to over populate ..

I think they should find other use of that building your going to have all those peoe hanging in front of the shelter during the day those schools have enough issues they don't need all those people hanging around there

Someone did something! It's cold outside and they should have put them somewhere before they even closed the bridge! But of course they did not think of the ones who called that place home. I really hope this works and I hope they let them outside as "SOME" Do work! Curfew yes, but to be confined NO NO NO! And don't say they going to destroy the neighborhood because that's bullcrap as THERE ARE HOMELESS, drugs, and Violence everywhere... And if this was something done before hand, I know for a fact Bodio Hutchinson would have never stabbed them rangers because he would have been on the island... Not saying what he did was right but he really wanted to die... There's really nothing to live for in his eyes...... I pray my friend really gets the help he needs as he is not that person. I pray for all of them and hopes this brings life back to them!

First of all how can you legally keep citizens locked up on campus and not allow them to leave. Second if they are going to house level three sex offenders in a neighborhood with schools there will be problems.

I was kind of hoping that they'd be housed in a storefront in Roslindale, possibly near the Pet Gentlemen's Club, to keep those icky chain stores away.

The "not in my neighborhood" mentality i find myself reading (and re-reading, just to be sure i truly saw it) is absolutely despicable. Where in the world is your sense of humanity? It's not your problem because you're fortunate enough to have the means to put a roof over your head. What happens if you're later diagnosed with mental illness. Or you go and serve your country and return, a shattered shell of your former self. Or the business you've embarked upon and put everything you had into crumbles. Or you lose your health. Perhaps you're elderly and not of sound mental faculties and you have no surviving family after your spouse departs. Or god forbid, you develop an addiction. I don't think anyone truly wants to become an addict. Put yourself into someone else's shoes for once, you might see how easily it could be you. The real travesty is that there are any homeless people in this country, period. Knowing that there are vacant pieces of property that could be repurposed to help people in need but just continue to sit is about as sickening. I hope this works out for these folks. I know it's just a bandaid on a far deeper problem but at least someone is at least acknowledging it.