Category: Homeless
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A Christmas remembrance: Miami’s 2025 loss of Kinard Shirley and 171 others who died in the streets
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Kinard Shirley was one of 172 homeless people who died this year in Miami. He wasn’t somebody’s father or spouse, but he was a brother and a son. Shirley, 37, was a day laborer at a downtown construction site near North Miami Avenue and NW 6th Street. It’s an intersection of history… -
Study shows more homeless deaths in Broward than Miami-Dade as rates spike in both counties
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Numbers show that homelessness, which shortens lives everywhere, is twice as lethal in Broward as in Miami-Dade. -
Fort Lauderdale, taxpayers about to learn cost of city’s unconstitutional folly shutting down public feedings
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Fort Lauderdale taxpayers face the prospect of having to foot the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees run up during the city’s unconstitutional efforts to shut down the practice of food sharing with the homeless in downtown Stranahan Park. -
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Dire need for COVID-19 shots adds urgency to Miami homeless advocates’ refrain
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Civil rights lawyers and activists are agitating for Miami police to stop disrupting homeless people by emptying their camps. It’s the same old song, but with a different meaning in a pandemic. -
Complaint: Fort Lauderdale commissioner bullied homeless into leaving their camp
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
An activist says a Fort Lauderdale city commissioner used bullying tactics to force homeless people to abandon their tent community on public property. -
Homeless in a time of COVID-19; what Broward may do to begin providing protection
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Stay home and put distance between yourself and other people. That’s the government’s advice to prevent the spread of the deadly COVID-19 virus. But what do you do when you don’t have a home?
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