City workers have handed out flyers explaining Boston's plan to remove tents on Wednesday from the 'Mass. and Cass' area. Despite efforts to offer services, housing and storage to people in the encampment, some advocates remain concerned about what will happen once police sweep the tents away.
For the past two years, Victor Arias has worked in the area of Boston described as the epicenter of the state's opioid, mental health and homelessness crises.
Before police can start removing tents, the ordinance requires the city offer people shelter, transportation to shelter and a place to store their belongings. In the lead up, workers distributed flyers with information about shelters, transitional housing and substance use treatment programs. Wearing a bullet-proof vest over his tall, burly frame, Arias regularly checks in on people living around the encampment, especially with the looming tent removals by police.
"C'mon, breathe," Arias said as recovery workers from the Boston Public Health Commission also rushed to the man.The man groaned, his eyes fluttered.The man opened his eyes. Arias and a Boston Public Health Commission Recovery worker helped him to his unsteady feet."You just overdosed and were given Narcan," the Boston Public Health Commision worker told him."You can't do any drugs for awhile.
Corey Hinds, who has been living under a tarp in the area for most of the year, said an outreach worker helped him secure housing through a Boston nonprofit. The ordinance is one of several plans Boston has come up with over the years to address the addiction, mental health and homelessness crisis on vivid display near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. Various social service agencies exist in the area to help address such issues and draw many people there.
"They're gonna take care of the people who need shelter and need all different things," said Sue Sullivan, executive director of the Newmarket Business Association, a group that represents businesses in the neighborhood."But it's all the other people that will scatter to the wind that the police and others are going to have to make sure that they're not in every alleyway and every park and every neighborhood.
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