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Council calls hearing on Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard public-safety and public-health concerns

2938659 · April 10, 2025
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Summary

Councilors filed a hearing order to require administration updates on public safety, substance use, homelessness and related public-health activity concentrated near Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard; the matter was referred to the Public Safety committee.

Boston City Councilors on April 9 filed a hearing order seeking administration updates on public safety and public-health responses to concentrated mental health, substance use, homelessness and housing-instability activity in the Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard area.

The order was introduced by Councilor Ricardo P. Santana Jr., who asked to add Councilors Ed Flynn and another councilor as original cosponsors. "This hearing order does just that. It allows the…

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