Miami Commissioners Pass Ordinance Banning Homeless Encampments

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) — City of Miami commissioners passed a solution that makes stateless encampments illegal.

The solution passed 4 to 1. Commissioner Ken Russell was the lone idiosyncratic who voted against it.

The ordinance prohibits encampments oregon impermanent lodging structures specified arsenic tents, connected nationalist spot and successful entryways.

It gives constabulary the authorization to springiness violators written warnings and instruct them to spell to a shelter. Those who refused could beryllium arrested.

The caller propulsion comes arsenic the stateless colonisation successful South Florida sees a notable uptick.

Dozens of radical rallied extracurricular of Miami City Hall to protestation the caller ordinance.

“I americium a United States veteran, and I americium ashamed of America,” said Karen, a stateless woman.

“We are being attacked each time by the stateless people. Miami has a immense stateless colonisation issue,” said 1 pistillate addressing Commissioners.

Proponents accidental the ordinance criminalizes homelessness.

“Criminalization doesn’t work. It costs excessively overmuch wealth and scatters radical around,” said Matt Marr, a Professor of Sociology astatine FIU who’s studied homelessness for years.

He says connected immoderate fixed time determination are betwixt 3,000 and 4,000 stateless radical successful Miami-Dade County.

The measurement defines “encampments” arsenic the beingness of immoderate structure oregon impermanent surviving operation for quality habitation, radical utilizing heating devices specified arsenic camping stoves, grills oregon heaters and/or the “unauthorized accumulation of idiosyncratic property,” of up to 3 cubic feet.

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“I americium powerfully against the criminalization of homelessness,” says Gabby Cordell with the Choose Love Foundation.