Florida's tough homeless population law leaves cities scrambling

Florida has a tough new law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets. Under a statute that took effect Tuesday, it is now illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces. The law requires counties and cities to enact ordinances to enforce the law and create programs aimed at getting the homeless off the street. If they don't, starting Jan. 1 residents, businesses and the state can sue them. That has local officials worried they will be targeted by lawyers seeking fees. Localities also can set up outdoor camps where the homeless could live for a time.

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Florida's tough homeless population law leaves cities scrambling

Florida has a tough new law aimed at getting the homeless off the streets. Under a statute that took effect Tuesday, it is now illegal in Florida to sleep on sidewalks, in parks, on beaches or in other public spaces. The law requires counties and cities to enact ordinances to enforce the law and create programs aimed at getting the homeless off the street. If they don't, starting Jan. 1 residents, businesses and the state can sue them. That has local officials worried they will be targeted by lawyers seeking fees. Localities also can set up outdoor camps where the homeless could live for a time.

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Social benefit charities have, at least notionally, the constitutional purpose of helping people in society.

We should demand that our government have such a purpose too, and dissolve those that do not.

More importantly, Unlike a #charity organisation, the government of #Australia is entirely in control of how many Australian dollars they spend, and when, and on what, and how often.

Anything that can be purchased in Australian dollars, our federal government can pay it if they choose to, whenever they choose to, there is *nothing* stopping federal government from doing that.

So it's a shameful abdication of duty, for our federal government to refuse to spend whatever dollars are needed to, for example, house every person in the country; while also expecting praise for recommending *we* (with leftover funds) give money to *charity organisations* (with less capacity to use it than government) instead.

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Please use the email your MP facility if you can. Lord Bird has always said the government needs to stop creating the conditions for homelessness and to tackle the root of the problem. He's demonstrated clearly he's had enough. Please do the same.

Homelessness is not an individual's choice... it is society's!

Big Issue founder Lord Bird storms out of rough sleeping inquiry
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Big Issue founder storms out of ‘farce’ rough sleeping inquiry: ‘I’ve heard this for 30 years’

Lord Bird stormed out of an inquiry into rough sleeping warning that government efforts to tackle homelessness were a 'farce'.

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