Florida has a tough new law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets. Under a statute that took effect Tuesday, it is now illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces.
"Florida has chosen to reject comfortable inaction and tackle this problem head-on," House bill sponsor Sam Garrison said in June after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of an Oregon city's ordinance cracking down on public camping. The new Florida law bars local governments ...
And though South Florida is not exempt from that issue, a new kind of program hopes to provide housing to local unhoused veterans. Ernest Johnson said he can't walk for more than 20 minutes due to pain in his lower body. "I go through a lot of pain ...
Florida homeless beatings put light on hidden problemCurt Anderson
The United Nations has defined access to housing as a human right. Therefore, it considers homelessness to be ahuman rightsviolation caused by unjustinequalitiesinincome and wealth. The UN has called on governments throughout the world to do more to combat the problem. ...
Tobias Peter is the co-director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center. Ethan Frizzell serves with The Salvation Army in Southwest Florida and consults with the AEI Housing Center. HomelessnessHousing crisisSupreme Court of the United States...
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Whatever the case, homelessness in San Francisco doesn’t look much different than it did 10 years ago. Or 20. Money has always been part of the problem — no matter how much the city has spent, it has never been enough. But homelessness has also persisted because of a lack of focus...
The problem is that homeless people cannot afford the housing that is available to people of sufficient means. By Dr. James D. WrightLate Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor of SociologyUniversity of Central Florida By Dr. Beth A. RubinProfessor of Sociology, EmeritusProfessor of Public ...
Those encounters are also the ones that people remember, and the ones that drive their perception of the underlying problem of homelessness in the US. "People see the most extreme version of homelessness," Kushel said. "But that doesn't mean that's the ...