The governor plans to open an overflow website Wednesday for migrant homeless households at Roxbury’s Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex, particularly these sleeping in a single day at Logan International Airport. The plan has drawn pushback from a neighborhood stunned by how shortly it was carried out.
Nov. 17, 2023
The head of Massport says roughly 20 to 25 migrants are arriving every day at Logan International Airport, with some seen tenting out briefly in baggage declare and elsewhere.
Jan. 23, 2024
Video and images start circulating within the media exhibiting “dozens” with some retailers reporting as much as 100 migrants sleeping on the ground in a single day within the Terminal E location of Logan International Airport.
Jan. 26, 2024
The information breaks that Gov. Maura Healey is contemplating Roxbury’s Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex as a short lived overflow website for migrant and homeless households, particularly those that have been sleeping in a single day at Logan International Airport. Logan operator Massport says migrants are there on a “daily basis.”
The governor lays out her plan and is met with neighborhood pushback at a Roxbury listening session held later that night time.
Jan. 29, 2024
Gov. Maura Healey sends a letter to the elected officers who hosted the Jan. 26 listening session, saying that she intends to maneuver ahead with the plan to transform the Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex into a short lived overflow shelter, with a promise to close it down by May 31, to permit for the busy summer season pool season.
Jan. 31, 2024
The Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex will start serving as a short lived overflow website for migrant and homeless households, particularly those that have been sleeping at Logan Airport. The governor’s plan outlines a 24/7 staffing schedule with on-site providers that embody three meals a day, “around-the-clock” safety, faculty enrollment for youngsters and case administration aimed toward secure housing.
May 31, 2024
The governor states the overflow shelter for migrant and homeless households will shut at Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex to permit for website renovations forward of the pool reopening on June 20.
June 2024
The Melnea A. Cass Recreational Complex is slated to return to its common use.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”