New Mass. and Cass Approach Aims for "a Magic Sauce"

New Mass. and Cass approach aims for "a magic sauce"

South End leaders proposed a tougher, tightly coordinated plan to confront open drug use and homelessness at Boston's long-troubled Mass. and Cass intersection.

New Mass. and Cass approach aims for ‘a magic sauce'

A new proposal from Boston leaders aims to tackle homelessness, confront drug use, and integrate public health and safety systems.

Boston leaders pitch new approach to tackle Mass and Cass drug market: ‘Status quo is not acceptable’

Boston community leaders proposed a new plan to tackle the open-air drug market at and around Mass and Cass that focuses on getting addicts off the streets, out of jail and into recovery in order to avoid last summer’s crowding and chaos. The three-pronged “choice-based” approach is built around recovery, judicial and public safety initiatives. It aims to “fill in the gaps” in the city’s current “fragmented” response system that has created the …

New Mass. and Cass Approach Aims for 'a Magic Sauce'

South End leaders proposed Wednesday a tougher, tightly coordinated plan to confront open drug use and homelessness at Boston's long-troubled Mass. and Cass intersection.