Mayor Nadine Woodward’s re-election campaign has been working to convince voters that if her opponent Lisa Brown is elected, Camp Hope will come back – and this time, the homeless encampment would be in quiet neighborhood parking lots across the city.
Worse, the Woodward camp has argued: the Brown campaign is trying to hide the truth from the public.
“…Does she still believe we should have a Camp Hope in parking lots across our city?” Woodward asked on Twitter a little over a week ago. “Voters deserve to know.”
In response, Brown has claimed that Woodward is mischaracterizing a policy position that Brown hasn’t taken a firm stand on one way or another, all while the incumbent fails to address the issue of many homeless people already living in their cars parked across the city.
“The mayor’s engaging in a scare tactic here, because she believes if she does that, perhaps, it will distract from the central failure of her administration: not developing a response to homelessness,” Brown said in an interview.
During a Wednesday press conference in a Logan Neighborhood parking lot, Woodward pointed to a statement Brown had made in the spring about a range of options to “effectively transition” homeless people into appropriate services, with one of those possible bridges likely including “safe parking and tiny homes and other emergency housing.”
Woodward has seized on this statement, using the Wednesday press conference to further insinuate that Brown’s reference to “safe...
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