Article:
http://thebostonsun.com/2020/07/16/pine-street-roundhouse-hotel-to-open-homeless-shelter-at-mass-cass-agreement-shocks-neighbors-some-in-city-hall/
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The city hasn't gotten rid of the drug dealers.
Health Care for the Homeless has people passing out in front of the building and weaving through traffic.
The Pine Street Inn refuses to consider restructuring so that its core mission is to provide support at all of its shelters and other buildings for substance abuse recovery, emotional trauma, criminal rehabilitation, illiteracy, or any of the other crippling problems that prevent chronically homeless people from being fully functional.
You know why? Because none of the above believes that homeless people can be supported to full functionality. That's why they don't even try.
If the public has heard of "supportive housing" for the homeless at all, then it assumes that the support provided by that housing includes all of those rehabilitative services. The public probably also assumes that all of those services are provided at homeless shelters and that the reason that there are more homeless people all the time is that homeless people are ungrateful losers who don't want help. It never occurs to anyone that homeless people are corralled through the homeless shelters' schedules of operations every day, and that none of those services or even coordination with those services are provided or offered.
As for supportive housing; the Pine Street Inn can use it as a source of revenue, with a waiting list of thousands of people, many of whom will die or go back to jail before they can be turned into Pine Street Inn tenants. Why would it want to provide services or service coordination at its supportive housing if the results of those efforts could be evidence that homeless people aren't a subspecies?
