Homelessness

The Purge: Your Family or This Homeless Guy?

Patrick Morgan, Fort Lauderdale Airport Cleaner, Finds and Turns in a Lost iPad and $13,000

Shootings. Death. College professors spewing out conspiracy theories. People masturbating in coffee shops. There just aren't ever enough good things to report 'round here. UNTIL NOW.

It's True: Those Plants in Stranahan Park Are Definitely For Keeping Out Homeless People

A couple months ago, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler was on the radio one fine Saturday, after spending the morning on his hands and knees along with local volunteers planting gardens of tropical foliage in Stranahan Park. With Seiler's record of trying to get the homeless to disband from the park ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Panhandling Ban to Kick In Wednesday

The new ordinance banning "aggressive panhandling" city-wide and regular panhandling in specific places has been finalized and is set to kick in Wednesday; it's set to take effect on Wednesday, at which time you will no longer be able to ask for money in bus stations, buses, city-owned garages, park ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale to Blow Nearly $30K on Ads Urging Onlookers to Stop Giving to Homeless

​Officials in Fort Lauderdale apparently think the city needs signs and ads urging onlookers to stop feeding loose change to begging beasts homeless people.On Tuesday, the city approved a $26,350 campaign to plaster the slogan "Panhandling: Don't Contribute to the Problem. Contribute to ... More >>

Occupy Is Dead. Long Live Occupy! Or, How Homeless Phobia Is Marginalizing Everything

​Happy new year! You may remember one of the more original social phenomena of 2011. It was called "the Occupy movement." A couple of guys got together and put out a call through Adbusters magazine for disenfranchised folks to sit around and draw attention to the highfalutin few who systematically ... More >>

As Demand for Food Grows, "Food Not Bombs" Is There – Causing a Ruckus

Food Not Bombs: What the Mayor Thinks

​Last week, as we were talking to Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler about sea turtles, we were also finishing up this week's cover story, Food Fight. The story chronicles the ongoing struggle of Food Not Bombs to pass out free food and attract attention to its political message.So, as the mayor wa ... More >>

Houston Press Delivers a New Perspective on Homeless People -- Their Own

via the Houston Press/ Daniel Kramer Billy Temple and his prized possession, his daughter's graduation photo.​The New Times Broward-Palm Beach wasn't the only paper in our chain to publish a cover story about homelessness this week. John Nova Lomax at the Houston Press wrote a featu ... More >>

What Should Fort Lauderdale Do for the Homeless?

Stranahan Park​Have you walked through Stranahan Park lately -- or ever? It's a nice place. But with throngs of homeless people living there, it's also a reminder that Broward County has a significant problem: About a quarter of the 3,225 homeless people in the county did not have a bed at a shelt ... More >>

The Homeless Voice Doesn't Act Like Most Homeless Shelters -- Just the Way Sean Cononie Wants It

Three Cities Cope, or Fail to Cope, With Unsightly Homeless People

​It seems SoFla is taking a page from the Rudy Giuliani playbook, trying every which way to get homeless people off of our streets and out of our sight. To that end, three initiatives have been proposed in three cities in recent weeks.Two weeks ago, Palm Beach County unveiled a plan to dissuade d ... More >>

LeBron James Jerseys Go From Cleveland to the Backs of South Florida's Homeless

Morning Juice: Jupiter High Grad Kidnapped by Escaped Convicts, High School Just Got Harder

​Here's what's going on in your South Florida neighborhood this morning:1. Three escaped Louisiana convicts who were arrested in Miami are being accused of kidnapping 29-year-old Vincent Binder, a Jupiter High School graduate. Apparently Binder approached them asking to buy marijuana at a gas stat ... More >>

Bum Fights: Do Liberal New Yorkers Know What Happens to Homeless in Florida?

Flickr: 71sbeetle​It's advertised as a way to deal with a city's homeless problem in the most humane way possible -- give 'em one-way tickets out of town. But that's only if the progressives in cities like New York aren't reading headlines like we've got down here, about Florida leading the nation ... More >>

New York City Gives Homeless One-Way Tickets to Florida

Flickr user: April A. TaylorThanks for the helping hand, Bloomberg.​Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has devised an ingenious way to cut down on the number of homeless families in New York City shelters: Handing out one-way tickets to leave town. And what's one of the most popular destinat ... More >>

Does Coral Springs Hate Homeless People?

Judging by the front page story in this week's edition of "The Our Town News", yes. On the direct-mail community newspaper's web site, the article about the city's commissioners and residents disdain for the homeless men and women selling The Homeless Voice is featured next to a story about a ... More >>

UPDATE: 'The Our Town News' Source is a Paper Employee

The "resident" quoted as "Merle Lynn" in this week's "The Our Town News" story about how residents and commissioners want homeless people out of Coral Springs is an employee of that community newspaper. Her name is Merle Rosenberg and she works in classified advertising. Her quote about the homeless ... More >>

Since You Can't Wrap Yourself in This Blog...

I didn't think anyone could do more to help the homeless people of Broward than New Times -- our boxes are frequently used to store blankets and the pages of the "print product" can both warm someone and serve as a feces receptacle, among other applications. But as it turns out, there a few people j ... More >>

Just a Paycheck Away

Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

Something Is Happening Here, Mr. Jones

Saint Aaron

Living like a pauper himself, a young man from Broward is trying to save Haiti's children

Shipped Off

When you're down and out in West Palm, a free ticket to New York can mean just being homeless in another city

Scores of Poor

The homeless population is skyrocketing, but you'd never know it by reading the dailies

Letters for June 6, 2002

Match and set

Room at the Inn

Sean Cononie has revolutionized SoFla homeless care. So why are the bureaucrats snubbing him?

Letters for March 21, 2002

Homeless haggling

The Odd Couple

A minister and a rabbi team up to sue Palm Beach County on behalf of the homeless

Gimme Shelter

Allen Reesor's friends-and-family program has other homeless-services professionals crying foul

A Homeless Homicide

A stoned driver killed Christina Van Huffel in his Mercedes. The mental-health system let her die.

Brother, Can You Spare a Can?

A new program intended to solve the scourge of panhandling replaces spare change with a "Can of Help." Sort of.

Undercurrents

Fur's flyin' at the Herald and online

Elsewhere, Christian Soldier

When a do-gooder wants to open a shelter for homeless moms, local gay residents vow to raise hell

How to Become Homeless

Develop heart problems and a fondness for drink. Have your trailer condemned and hit the street. Nothing to it.

Undercurrents

Letters

Undercurrents

Mean Streets

Getting rid of those folks with buckets equals getting rid of one of the county's better homeless-assistance programs.

A Homeless Soup Kitchen?

All the managers of Cooperative Feeding wanted was a home. They found the property. Then Broward County officials stepped in.

Undercurrents

No fast-food drive-thrus

Down and Out in Broward County

Many of the homeless are substance abusers who've spent most of their lives on the streets. And no new county system will change that.

Best Name For The H. Wayne Huizenga Fountain

The Throw-the-Billionaire-a-Bone Memorial

Undercurrents

Undercurrents

Little Shop of Horrors

The owners wanted to open a fun store in downtown Fort Lauderdale. After three burglaries in a month, the novelty wore off.

The Power of the Pencil

Undercurrents

Undercurrents

What Happens When the Big Tent Folds?

Broward's ballyhooed new homeless shelter won't clear the streets of all vagrants. But the police might.