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City looks at DPW lot off Southeast Expressway to replace Long Island facilities
By adamg on Wed, 11/12/2014 - 10:11am
The Globe reports city officials expect to discuss a proposal for the land - across from the Pine Street Inn - at a meeting this evening at the Blackstone Community Center in the South End.
The Boston Public Health Commission is already preparing two buildings at its Mattapan campus for 125 beds for halfway programs, but that leaves roughly 575 beds that needed replacement once Mayor Walsh ordered the Long Island bridge shut as unsafe last month.
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the community center, 50 W Brookline St.
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Oh great...
As if DTX wasn't bad enough. Where do you think the people are going to congregate when they leave??
I bet the city just wants the land on the island for some special interst group. Maybe Marty's turining it into a union training facility to go along with the police and fire set up on Moon Island...
Where did they congregate last winter?
Were there tons of homeless people in Squantum and North Quincy when the Long Island facility was open?
The idea of a particular municipality having to shoulder the budget for homeless people is stupid anyways. I'm sure there are many people on the streets of Boston whose last residence was not in the city, but now they're here.
No
No, because they bussed them over there from the shelter by the BMC, where the did/do congregate. I doubt they will be running a bus from the same location four blocks up the street to the new location, so the new shelter will be the new hangout. So, DTX
Many communities refuse to
Many communities refuse to take care of their own homeless and mentally ill residents and deport them to Boston. This dumping of people shouldn't be tolerated by the city which has to absorb the costs nor should the state allow communities or in many cases neighboring states to do it in the first place.
Hard to put this on Mayor Walsh
It was no secret that this bridge has been deteriorating for decades. This is 100% on the Menino administration. He was the all time master of fixing things that were broken - but was pretty much at a loss when it came to planning and preventive maintenance (and let's face
it - if you fix something quickly after it breaks - people think you are wonderful. If you fix it before it breaks or prevent it from breaking in the first place, nobody notices - sly like a fox).
This is big strike number 2 - the BRA debacle being big strike number 1 - so far.
I think Mayor Walsh is going to take the blame for a lot of things that went undone under the prior administration.
Quincy was blocking repairs
Quincy NIMBYs were throwing everything they had at it, for mostly bogus reasons.
On the other hand, there should have been a frank and honest consideration of whether fixing the bridge was a good idea given the cost and possible alternatives, and some long-range planning by the state and city. Of course it is much easier to let a few rabid nuts drive it to a crisis than admit that it probably wasn't the most cost effective or accessible location for these facilities.
oh mai
I would have love to be a fly on the wall for all the pearl clutching that will on. I bet many people who bought overpriced condos in that area will love yet another homeless shelter to be built nearby. Like the PSI doesn't have enough problems..
Just sayin.. not that I agree, but you know some people will have big qualms about this.
Maybe, maybe not
After all, how many strands of these pearls are getting worn thin from repeated clutching while their clutchers are at their downtown jobs and faced with a noticeable influx of panhandlers?
Also, if this is the DPW lot that I'm thinking of, it is pretty much under the freeway and not bordering anything but big highways and rails.
There are no
Condos on that side of the highway. On the other side, there's already a homeless shelter, so they knew what they were getting into when they purchased their "high priced condo".
The Scarlet Letter
From all over New England cities and towns have banished their level three sex offenders and heroin addicts and shipped them into Boston by bus. The shelters and their devoted staffs are not equipped to handle the criminal element who prey on the homeless population who reside at the shelters