When the Boston Globe points fingers at you and your Boston neighbors and screams NIMBY, you know you are in for a fight.
Of course, that’s exactly what Governor Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu and the developer want; A knockdown, drag out, talk radio donnybrook over a shelter being shoehorned into a tiny former nursing home nestled among a family neighborhood in the Holy Name parish.
This proposed shelter for 174 clients plus staff is landing in the old Stonehenge Nursing Home that was slated to be raised for condos. From 1961 through 2022 the small West Roxbury nursing home never cared for more than about 70 patients, plus the staff it was permitted for.
It is my hope that the Globe, Mayor Wu, and Governor Healey will take a moment, catch their breath, and stop with the campaign of

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