Homelessness

Broward County Declares Cold Weather Emergency

In case you haven't noticed, the weather's been kinda nutty lately. It's hot, it's cold, it's hot, it's cold again. OMG Florida is going through menopause! Well, it was a bit brisk this morning, and yes, you had your fun taunting your Northeastern friends with the fact that you find 50 degrees cold ... More >>

Hallandale Teens Charged With Murdering Homeless Man Were Looking to Hire a Prostitute

The two teens who were charged with murdering a homeless man behind an auto parts store were looking to hook up with a prostitute on that fateful night. Juan Xolo, 17 and Jose Carlos Llano, 14, who confessed to police of stabbing the man with a pen, had been introduced to a hooker by the man they a ... More >>

Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of "Poor Black Men" Secret as Disease Spreads

An outbreak of tuberculosis has spread from Jacksonville to as far south as Miami and was kept secret from the public, according to an expose by the Palm Beach Post. The CDC team investigating the spread said it is the worst it's investigated in 20 years. At the time of their report in April, 13 de ... More >>

Daniel Webster, Orlando Congressman, Invokes "Liberty" in Death Blow to Very Useful Survey

I was checking out at Publix a few days ago when a man came up behind me in the express lane, put down his sandwich, and started muttering about whether they would screen him for putting terrorist weapons in the sandwich and how there is "no freedom left in this country," etc. I bristled at hearing ... More >>

Photos of Rudy Eugene Miami Face-Eating Attack: Miami Herald Will Put One on Coffee Mug for $14.95 (Photos; NSFW)

If you went anywhere near social media over the weekend, you've already heard about Rudy Eugene, the man police say took off all his clothes and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami on Saturday afternoon. When Eugene ignored a police officer telling him to stop, the officer shot him -- and Eugene ... More >>

Food Not Bombs to Celebrate 32nd Anniversary and a Farewell, Before Embarking on Puppet Show Bus Tour

Every Friday for the past few years, Food Not Bombs has been gathering at Stranahan Park in downtown Fort Lauderdale to pass out food to the homeless, hungry, or just plain bored. Our cover story on the group last year found the local chapter bracing for a local crackdown on public food sharing. Whi ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Anti-Panhandling Scheme Gets Attention From National Lawyers' Guild

There's a no-panhandling zone in downtown Miami, and Fort Lauderdale currently prohibits asking for change along the beach. But the Fort Lauderdale City Commission is considering some tough new regulations that would effectively ban panhandling in the entire downtown area. That's in addition to a pr ... More >>

Florida Panthers May Owe $30.8 Million if Team Hasn't Sheltered Homeless Since '96

​Here's an audit Florida's professional sports franchises may not have expected -- records of housing the homeless at their facilities over the years.The chances of that audit happening depend on a bill that's working its way through the Legislature, and if the Florida Panthers haven't been housin ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Commission Agrees to Cover One-Way Bus Tickets for the Homeless

used-buses.netHomeless-moving device.​The Fort Lauderdale Commission approved a $25,000 program yesterday to bus homeless people out of town, with the intent to get them back together with family and friends.Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve the "Homeless Outreach Unification Program," which ... More >>

NY Times Rags on Lake Worth "Riff-Raff," Makes Commissioner Bluster

City of Lake WorthMulvehill was not happy about the "riff-raff."​Poor Lake Worth. The hippie, quirky, crunchy little stepchild of Palm Beach got a brief shout-out in the New York Times "Frugal Traveler" blog this week, but the fifteen minutes of famed only angered a city official.In a story about ... More >>

At the Beach With Arnold Abbott, Fort Lauderdale's Homeless-Feeding Advocate

Stefan KamphAbbott serves food to the hungry​When we were reporting last week's cover story on Food Not Bombs, one name came up again and again as the man who had started the slow avalanche of legal decisions that made Fort Lauderdale think long and hard about its efforts to prevent large-scale me ... More >>

Sharing Food with the Homeless: Churches and Anarchists Agree on Something, It Seems

​Fresh off a late evening with the Hollywood Food Not Bombs group (sharings on Thursday in front of Young Circle Publix, around 7 p.m.), the Pulp woke up early on Friday get another side of the food-sharing story from Robin Martin, the head of HOPE South Florida.HOPE is a coalition of Fort Lauderd ... More >>

Food Terrorists? 24 Food Not Bombs Activists Arrested for Feeding Homeless; Protest Planned July 1

​Last week, activists from the group Food Not Bombs -- including its cofounder -- were arrested in Orlando for trying to share food with homeless folks. The first arrestees violated a 2006 city ordinance that regulates mass feedings in parks. When others engaged in civil disobedience and continued ... More >>

Florida Company Accused of Paying Homeless Men to Let Women Brutally Beat Them

shefights.net​A Florida pastor and a group advocating for the homeless is accusing a Florida-based website of offering homeless men money to get tortured on camera. The site, shefights.net, offers customized videos of attractive young women beating the holy fuck out of men, often until the men are ... More >>

The Odd Couple: Sheriff Al and the Dolphin Democrat

Republican Sheriff Al Lamberti and Michael Albetta, head of the influential Dolphin Democrats, always seemed an odd couple. radaris.com Albetta with Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon at an Obama event. ​Despite their party differences, Albetta, who has played a big role in Bro ... More >>

A Standup Guy

Miramar Bans Panhandlers -- What Does This Mean for the Donation-Driven Homeless Voice Shelter? (UPDATED)

via homelessvoice.org​A street-solicitation ban in Miramar went into effect Monday, and Sean Cononie, founder of the Homeless Voice shelter in Hollywood is not happy -- in fact, he's "confused" by Miramar's claim that the ban is meant to ensure safety. Cononie's shelter is largely funded by its re ... More >>

LeBron James Jerseys for the Homeless: Six Days Left to Donate

​We've got a stack of wine-and-gold jerseys ready to clothe the homeless, and we're looking for more.As we mentioned last week, Miami New Times is giving away a pair of Miami Heat tickets to the person who donates the most LeBron James jerseys, shoes, and other goodies from the King's Cleveland da ... More >>

UPDATED: LeBron James Jersey Donation Derailed by "Politics"

Flickr user: Keith AllisonWe don't want your stinking jerseys.​The Summer of LeBron just got weirder.In July, a group of guys in Northeast Ohio launched a campaign to collect LeBron James' old Cleveland Cavaliers jerseys and send them to homeless people in Miami. It seemed like a wholesome idea. C ... More >>

Jeff Greene, Hoping for a Photo Op to Save His Ailing Campaign, Visits Illegal Homeless Shelter

Photo by Sunshine State NewsGreene with Westgate Tabernacle Bishop Avis Hill yesterday.​Things just don't seem to be going well for Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene. Here he was in West Palm Beach yesterday, hoping his stop at a homeless shelter would be a bit of good press as his campaign for U ... More >>

Source: Broward Outreach Center Staff Are Keeping Donations for Themselves

From miamirescuemission.comThe Broward Outreach Center on Blount Road in Pompano Beach.​Donations by the community to a homeless shelter in Pompano Beach are supposed to be sold to raise money for services to South Florida's homeless population. Instead, says a former resident of Broward Outreach ... More >>

Lantana Town Manager Mike Bornstein: Coconuts for the Homeless?

Coconuts: A new plan for feeding the homeless​Lantana Town Manager Mike Bornstein says he got a pretty good laugh when he found out the hundreds of coconuts he'd mailed to Postmaster General John E. Potter had been given away to homeless shelters.  "We were imagining the cafeteria at the shel ... More >>

Gutter Glamour

Mickey Avalon is the club set's unlikely king.

John Digweed

Free Weddings for the Poor in Hollywood

As the head of a homeless shelter in Hollywood, Sean Cononie has hosted more than his share of funerals. Recently, he decided to begin celebrating a lesser-known side of life on the streets: love. His group, the Coalition of Service and Charity, organizes and pays for the weddings of couple ... More >>

Picking Up the Pieces

  I haven't been a very good Pulp caretaker lately due to a long piece that is kicking my ass hard. This thing had me feeling like Tom Hulce at the end of Amadeus, only I was surrounded by a thousand times more papers and F. Murray Abraham wasn't there to help. Oh, and it wasn't a mas ... More >>

Drive-Through Cinema

Give Them Shelter

An uncomfortable silence at the Sol.

With the help of Rainn Wilson, Aaron Jackson tries to cure a country.

Ultimate fighters weigh in on Kimbo Slice

Local Hip-Hoppers Decide to Give Back

Spring Break Is Still Decadent and Depraved — and Awesome, Dude!

Try as it might, Fort Lauderdale can't shake some diehard seasonal partiers

DJ Ivano

Maniac on the Floor

Plantation 9-1-1

Taser the Baby With the Bath Water

The Morning Papers

The Queen Batch

Wednesday Run-Up

Whoopi Goldberg

Rock the Vote

A father assesses his anarchist son's chances of becoming Lake Worth's next mayor

Letters for October 30, 2003

It's their fault

Moving Targets

In the past 15 years, at least 14 newspaper hawkers have been killed on the job and 29 more have been injured

Best Park

Holiday Park

Poetry in Motion

Sarah Jones performs Surface Transit

Better Than Everyone Else

Cities that try to restrict the sale of Homeless Voice hear from the voluble Sean Cononie

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