While the confluence of homelessness and substance use in Boston's 'Mass. and Cass' area persists, Mayor Michelle Wu argued Monday that conditions on the ground have improved dramatically in the year since she took office.
"It is night and day from where we were a year ago," Wu said."It is 80 percent, 90 percent, even, better than where we started a year ago where people were dying on the streets and there were fires and rampant diseases spread from a rodent infestation and widespread human trafficking in structures that we didn't really know what was going on inside."While the confluence of homelessness and substance use in Boston's"Mass.
"It is night and day from where we were a year ago," Wu said."It is 80 percent, 90 percent, even, better than where we started a year ago where people were dying on the streets and there were fires and rampant diseases spread from a rodent infestation and widespread human trafficking in structures that we didn't really know what was going on inside."Sign up for NECN newsletters.
Last month, Wu told WBUR about 20 tents"come up and down every other day." She said the city had worked to stand up about 200 units of"wraparound" supportive housing, but that Boston would be unable to manage the situation on its own and needed"the state to step up."
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