When last we discussed Upton Street, it was to point to a South End Newsstory about neighbors bemoaning the ruination of their tiny street by a Pine Street Inn proposal to convert three houses that had been used as transitional homes for people with problems into permanent housing for them.

Now the News reports:

Around 50 residents, elected officials, and concerned citizens squeezed into a community room on Shawmut Avenue on April 2, to show their support for the Pine Street Inn’s proposal to turn three row-homes on Upton Street into permanent housing for formerly homeless and low-income individuals ...

Lissa Harris documents the blanket situation at the Pine Street Inn, when a guest there shows up at Dig offices with a blanket full of holes:

... While Pine Street Inn denizens get nasty old blankets, homeless people on the streets get new ones, Bunker says ... Not one to stand for such holey outrages, Neal admitted to periodically stuffing Pine Street's most degenerate blankets into dumpsters, thereby forcing the shelter to buy new ones. ...