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[deleted] t1_iyaf1l3 wrote

Reply to comment by jojenns in Wu Claims Major Progress at Mass. and Cass, Admits Errors ‘Framing for Our Efforts' by _Hack_The_Planet_

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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