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[deleted] t1_iy8depu wrote

I drove by there every day in 2016-2019, it’s much much better now. There’s still work to do, and anybody seeing it for the first time today would still gawk at the amount of human suffering, but putting the actual progress in context, there’s like 1/10 the number of people out there at any given moment compared to a few years ago.

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jojenns t1_iy9kvsb wrote

Its just an illusion they have moved them out of sight so they can say this. A month ago Wu herself was saying how people are pouring into there because of the low threshold housing where you can get high carrot they are dangling

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[deleted] t1_iy9ligv wrote

The issue with mass and Cass was always that the people were out in the open with their behavior though. It’s not like the people in the suburbs who are complaining about the mass and Cass mess were ever suggesting they’d do anything at all, like parking surcharges or tax increases, to help these people in a meaningful way.

It’s not an illusion, it’s a solution to the problem as it was presented.

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waffles2go2 t1_iye49i5 wrote

No, the "open air drug markets" heyday has passed.

This problem does not have a simple solution and Wu is doing better than most (although it has been forced on her).

But if you think this was a "victory lap" AKA "mission accomplished" then you seem to be more of a hater than a pragmatic thinker and last time I checked "hating on someone trying to make things better" is a boomer position...

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jojenns t1_iyadxae wrote

The are still there in the same numbers They are just less visible. The thieving, dealing, assaults OD’s and other quality of life issues for that neighborhood are the same. You just have to take right turn to see it now.

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[deleted] t1_iyaf1l3 wrote

Yeah, but the job was never to solve homelessness, crime and addiction, it was to remove the public spectacle of it.

The neighborhood they’re in now has fewer residents and more commercial sites, which makes a big difference to quality of life for residents/tax payers.

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charons-voyage t1_iyckdud wrote

Honestly we can never “solve” these issues. We can only manage them. Even if we build 10K free housing units where people could do drugs and be degenerates, there are STILL gonna be people on the streets doing whatever the F they want.

As far as I’m concerned, as long as I don’t need to see needles or shit on the sidewalks on my way to work or where my kids play, idgaf what’s happening in other areas

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waffles2go2 t1_iye9wb2 wrote

>idgaf what’s happening in other areas

Should have started your screed with this...

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jojenns t1_iyag9ut wrote

The public spectacle and neighborhood impact remains its literally just an additionally turn off of mass ave. Actually just a look to your right and you see its all the same no turn required

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[deleted] t1_iyah06e wrote

The neighborhood impact is reduced by moving people away from the streets where people live permanently

You can’t see anywhere near the same volume of activity from the main roads, that’s just a dishonest description. I was through there an hour ago and there was no visible crowd.

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jojenns t1_iyatp9f wrote

Nobody lives where they stand in their usual spot. I drive by there every morning the volume is the same. The only real difference now is the snow birds magically can deal with shelters when it gets into the 40’s. Its not a dishonest description. You drove by at night and took Atkinson St?

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[deleted] t1_iyawz8c wrote

I take Melnea Cass across mass Ave and onto the expressway, the crowd simply isn’t there in the same volume as years past. It wasn’t even crowded mid summer.

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NBsAm3323 t1_iy91dd4 wrote

and I drive by there every day now.....it has not gotten better in the slightest.....i can PM you the picture of the lady shooting up her jugular in 4K i have or the man releaving himself (#2)........you pick. Shameful what shes allowing to happen.

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[deleted] t1_iy92hq6 wrote

I’m not sure those examples mean things haven’t gotten better (i still drive through daily, and still see the people out there), it just means it’s still pretty rough. I think I communicated that clearly enough initially.

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Wickedweed t1_iya6j89 wrote

You took a picture of an addict taking a dump? Why? I’m not disagreeing with your point, I just never have had the urge to document things like that

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NBsAm3323 t1_iya6w9k wrote

For hypocritical people like the one running our city :)

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