Boston vows to clear Mass and Cass of tents by Jan. 12; get their residents into housing and care

Other cities have found that a "housing first" policy helps more people get out of homelessness and addiction AND costs less.

https://www.va.gov/homeless/nchav/models/housing-first.asp#:~:text=Housi...

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/

https://www.ksjd.org/2021-11-29/to-address-chronic-homelessness-some-adv...

… longer than those complaining about them.
Just because you lost your home and live rough doesn’t make you less of a Bostonian. Just because you can’t pay the rents for your home that the absentee landlord who bought it or inherited it or won in foreclosure doesn’t make you less of a Bostonian.
Cities are historically where the displaced seek a better life. Boston is the state capital. But it’s full of people with the I got mine so fuck everyone else mindset and who would love to turn their city into a Disney movie set. Suburbanites don’t have a monopoly on that.

They wouldn't be suburbanites. Not that we should strive to imitate Jacksonville, Florida, just pointing out the folly of borders. The natural world is the only truth.

This is a terrific idea: Get them into houses that aren't near a density of schmucks, and after you treat them, you still have shelter that can be rented to anyone else for cheap.

and in a critical mass. What productive effort would it be send a handful to Revere, a few to Cambridge, a couple to Salem, one or two to Milton and Wareham and Wilbraham (all of these just randomly picked) when we have them all here in this one city, largely in one small area and can work set up the infrastructure to support the services needed to help them?

I am unaware of any community actively "dropping" individuals into the city, these folks ended up here one way or another but it's not like the City of Somerville (again just a randomly chosen place that came to mind quick) drove around in a van snatching people who appeared to be addicted to drugs and shoving them out on Southampton Street.

The state.

The STATE is paying for this. All of it.

From the earlier link:

In e-mail to advocates, Sudders said the state is buying "18 private lockable sleeping cabins, each with one or two beds, personal climate control and storage for possessions" from a company called Pallet - which says the units can be set up in as little as an hour. And:

"The state will also contract with a local health and human service provider to provide immediate onsite services, such as meals, laundry, case management and mental health and addiction services, with the goal of supporting residents in their transition from the streets to permanent housing and longer-term stability. The provider will also be responsible for general oversight of the community, including 24/7 security, as the safety of the residents as well as hospital staff, patients and the surrounding neighborhoods is paramount. The housing is expected to be operational in December."

Time for you to dial it down a notch, dude. At least get your facts straight.

As well as the kind of people you don’t want to see.
If the addicts have homes and services instead of open space and aimless care, you may see fewer needles. Just like the housed addicts of your class keep their own needles and wine bottles out of your sight.
Then you can go back to hating dogs.

To want these people to stay away from your upper middle class paradise, preferring them to stay in a very working class part of Boston is classist.

That’s kind of the definition of being classist.

Now, my wanting Senator Brownsberger’s planned heroin injection site to be in the town where Senator Brownsberger lives (Belmont) as opposed to being down in the Methadone Mile might also be classist, but I will accept the charge.

I’m concerned about your stress levels.
Cortisol and the likes, as you seem to froth about everything little thing on this board whereupon folks don’t think similarly or agree with you. The idea that these cloddish dimwits don’t see your lofty and righteous perspective seems to be part of the neurosis…

NIMBY’s have always gotten tons of crap here (understandably so) but I think SWIRL has become another “type” of person folks think of when they think of Boston—it’s like a brighter shade of Karen, whose root inflammation is not that she’s a Trump type but that she’s educated and as such, she just knows (facts here folks, FACTS) that’s she’s smarter than everyone.

So you decide to ignore the question rather than deal with a challenging answer. "Many" have been vaccinated so therefore there is no problem, move on.

I disagree with your assumption that many have been vaccinated, though I won't request a citation. I'd rather you consider your absolutist vaccine mandates.

BTW, I have had Covid, am vaccinated and boosted, so don't lump me in with the RFK Jr.'ers.

A social group I meet with the other night unanimously said the same exact words.
Right after some claimed institutionalization worked back before “these poor schizos were thrown into the streets” and others remarked, “It’s suspicious that so many Chinese are waiting in lines at food pantries near Chinatown” (this last observation while we sipped champagne and ate delectables in a multi million dollar Boston home that less than 10 years ago housed a working class family that had fallen apart and could no longer afford it).