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Homelessness

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    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 >>

  • News

    September 15, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    January 20, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    October 28, 2010

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 7, 2008

    Just a Paycheck Away

    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 >>

  • News

    January 3, 2008

    Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

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

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2006

    Something Is Happening Here, Mr. Jones

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

  • News

    July 21, 2005

    Saint Aaron

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

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    Letters for October 30, 2003

    It's their fault

  • News

    October 23, 2003

    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

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Scores of Poor

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

  • News

    June 6, 2002

    Letters for June 6, 2002

    Match and set

  • News

    May 9, 2002

    Room at the Inn

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

  • News

    March 21, 2002

    Letters for March 21, 2002

    Homeless haggling

  • News

    March 14, 2002

    The Odd Couple

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

  • News

    March 7, 2002

    Gimme Shelter

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

  • News

    September 28, 2000

    A Homeless Homicide

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

  • News

    June 29, 2000

    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.

  • News

    January 6, 2000

    Undercurrents

    Fur's flyin' at the Herald and online

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Elsewhere, Christian Soldier

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

  • News

    October 28, 1999

    How to Become Homeless

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

  • News

    August 12, 1999

    Undercurrents

    Warning the homeless

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Undercurrents

    Warning the homeless

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Letters

    Warning the homeless

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    Undercurrents

    Warning the homeless

  • News

    June 10, 1999

    Mean Streets

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

  • News

    May 13, 1999

    A Homeless Soup Kitchen?

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

  • News

    April 15, 1999

    Undercurrents

    No fast-food drive-thrus

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Letters

    No fast-food drive-thrus

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    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 of BPB

    March 11, 1999

    Best Name For The H. Wayne Huizenga Fountain

    The Throw-the-Billionaire-a-Bone Memorial

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Undercurrents

    The Throw-the-Billionaire-a-Bone Memorial

  • News

    February 25, 1999

    Undercurrents

    The Throw-the-Billionaire-a-Bone Memorial

  • News

    February 11, 1999

    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.

  • Calendar

    February 4, 1999

    The Power of the Pencil

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

  • News

    December 24, 1998

    Undercurrents

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

  • News

    February 26, 1998

    Undercurrents

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

  • News

    December 4, 1997

    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.

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