What if.....
1. Policy, Decision-makers, Planners, designers, and humanitarian support workers
LIVED within the shelters created initially for three days before open to the unhoused?
2. Workers were organized to both work and live in these shelters throughout its life-cycle?
3. Would you stay there?
Change the paradigm
BEMA International
Why did the Healey administration turn a Roxbury complex into migrant housing?
By Adam Reilly
The Melnea Cass Recreation Complex in Roxbury is usually home to community groups, local sports teams and after-school activities. Right now, though, it's a temporary home for dozens of unhoused migrant families, many of whom were sleeping at Logan Airport before Gov. Maura Healey turned the complex into temporary shelter earlier this week.
Healey's move has sparked pushback, with some critics asking why the state is using a facility in a neighborhood where most residents are people of color to respond to the ongoing migrant crisis.
Adam Reilly is joined by GBH News reporter Sarah Betancourt and Louis Elisa, a former head of the Boston branch of the NAACP who also has extensive disaster-management experience, to discuss the center's repurposing and the questions it raises.
Adam Reilly is a politics reporter and the host of GBH’s Talking Politics. Questions? Feedback? Story ideas? Email Adam at adam_reilly@wgbh.org.
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