Boston shuts tents with toilets, wash-up areas for Mass and Cass denizens

The city's health and human services chief, Marty Martinez, told WBUR's Jack Lepiarz on All Things Considered that the services made available in the tents will continue to be offered at a nearby drop-in center that's been housed in a temporary structure for four years but will soon open in a permanent building. And Martinez acknowledged that the problems surrounding the open-air comfort station became untenable.

Is the temporary structure still open until the permanent building opens?

Peculiar WBUR headline

By Percy
Thu, 09/02/2021 - 8:46am

People Experiencing Substance Use....

It became a place to shoot up and zonk out

By StillFromDorchester
Thu, 09/02/2021 - 10:51am

And that wasn't helpful.

Too bad the city threw a huge fit about setting up a supervised, clean, professionally monitored place to shoot up and zonk out. No, no, much better to have those people default to semi-public utilities and therefore make those unsafe and untenable to all the other homeless folk who need them.

Is it the city charter

By StillFromDorchester
Thu, 09/02/2021 - 5:31pm

That we should make it comfortable for drug addicts to inject poison?
Maybe Milton or Wellesley could set up some areas now that we took the tent down., Its not like all of the addicts are Bostonians anyway.

How about Belmont?

By Waquiot
Thu, 09/02/2021 - 8:48pm

I mean, the state senator from that swanky town seems to thing such facilities are just swell.

Boston shuts tents with toilets, wash-up areas for Mass and Cass denizens

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It's now easy to see why so

Easy to say

No Shit

It's okay

Maybe they'll go to the new facility

do you people read?

Peculiar WBUR headline

It became a place to shoot up and zonk out

Too bad the city threw a huge

Is it the city charter

How about Belmont?

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