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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and her administration have set a new goal of reducing homicides across the city by 20% over the next three years.

As temperatures warm up across the city, city councilors and neighbors alike have raised concerns over increasing violence and growing numbers of homeless living on the streets in the area known as Mass and Cass.

At her Bowdoin Street campaign office, just blocks from where one young man was gunned down, community organizer Liz Miranda opened a community meeting she organized with youth worker Romilda Pereira by simply asking the 50-or-so community residents how they were coping.