Boston pushes to clear out homeless encampment

Workers have started removing the last tents from a homeless encampment at a Boston intersection known as Mass and Cass. Residents dismantled tents and hauled prized possessions from the encampment as police officers, fire officials and social services workers moved around.

Bulldozers later loaded tents, tarps, milk crates, wooden pallets, coolers and other abandoned items into trash trucks to be hauled away. Street sweepers moved in once a section was cleared. New Mayor Michelle Wu had pledged to get housing and support for people living in tents in the area near the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard. A city official says more than 100 people have already been relocated to housing. The city has approached the camp as a humanitarian and public health crisis.