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Confusion, Fear, and Displacement
Here's an update from what's going on downtown from earlier in the week. Although BSO is indeed patrolling Broward Central Terminal, they have not taken over at the library (so far).So far, it does not...
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Homeless Board Members Suggests Major Changes to Confront Bad Policy
While police enforcement of anti-homeless criminal ordinances in Fort Lauderdale is well-known, few concern themselves with the entities who are actually in charge of homeless policy for the area. For...
View ArticleBreaking - Fort Lauderdale Misspent Half of HUD Funds for Sole Housing Project
Tucked into this week's Fort Lauderdale City Commission Agenda is CM5, "Motion to Approve Payment to Broward County in Response to Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General Audit...
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Storage Ban Returns to Stranahan
2 months after their first attempt, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department again announced their intent to confiscate the belongings of the homeless people who live on the sidewalk along Stranahan Park...
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Illegal Theft of Homeless Property Continues. Who's Responsible?
Wedding Preparations at Stranahan Gazebo, 6.25.16For months, the City of Fort Lauderdale has been attempting to clean up Stranahan Park by confiscating homeless people's belongings. Enforcement of the...
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Storage Ban Recovery Updates
As previously reported, at least 6 people had their belongings taken from the sidewalk outside Stranahan Park last Friday. New Times wrote a report about it, however we are going to go into a few more...
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"The Stranahan Committee," Property Thefts, and More
As reported in New Times, more confiscations of homeless property took place last week. This time the police were not involved, underscoring the inconsistency with which these seizures have occurred...
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Call to Action: Stranahan Committee This Friday
The first meeting of the "Ad Hoc Central Fort Lauderdale Committee" of the Broward Homelessness Continuum of Care Board is Friday, 2:30 pm in Government Central - 115 S Andrews Room A337.This committee...
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The Stranahan Society Speaks, Part 1
On Friday afternoon, the Homelessness Continuum of Care Board (CoC) tried something a little different. They held a meeting that focused solely on the alleviation of the woes of Stranahan...
View ArticleStranahan Society Pt 2 - A New Shelter? And More
Following up on our recap on the first meeting of the CoC's ad hoc committee to address Stranahan Park issues...Board Member Frank Pontillo talked at length about San Diego's ePATH program, which...
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DDA Extortion For Huzienga Plaza Begins
A shadow has been hanging over one of the "public" spaces in downtown Fort Lauderdale: Huzienga Plaza/Beaubier Park is at risk of being privatized. The Downtown Development Agency, facing a large...
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Commissioner McKinzie Really Doesn't Like The Sistrunk Sharing
Last year, the Sistrunk Sharing was created as a synthesis between Food Not Bombs and Black Lives Matter activists. On the first Wednesday of every month, the sharing takes place at Lincoln Park on...
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Homeless Board Doesn't Want Homeless Advocates & More
After a long delay, Broward County's Continuum Care of Board met again on Wednesday, September 8th, and there was much to discuss. One of the most surprising, and contentious subjects of discussion,...
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The Downtown Disposium
On Friday, September 23rd, The Downtown Development Authority of Fort Lauderdale will be hosting a "Downtown Symposium." Local developers and politicians will be rubbing shoulders with visiting DDA...
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Downtown Disposium - The Tour!
As previously discussed, the DDA wants to impress its friends with its many accomplishments next week. We would like to impress our friends with its many failures, and the failures of the other cronies...
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Sharing Ban Ruling Met with Dismay, Garlic Bread
The following is a statement from Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs after its sharing ban lawsuit was dismissed last Friday.*******In 2014, the City of Fort Lauderdale passed many "homeless hate laws,"...
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Proposal for New Homeless Shelter Continues Wednesday
The second meeting of the "Ad Hoc Central Fort Lauderdale Committee" for the Broward Homelessness Continuum of Care Board (COC) was a few weeks ago. Once again, the focus of the discussion turned...
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Food Not Bombs Appeals Sharing Ban Case
Last week, attorneys for Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs filed an appeal in its effort to stop Fort Lauderdale's sharing ban law. In the original case, the judge ruled in favor of a motion for summary...
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Homeless Confiscations - A For-Profit Enterprise
Notices and sticker tags went up on homeless property around the Stranahan Park area once again yesterday, November 29th. The notices say that the City will once again be cleaning the area tomorrow,...
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A Brief History of Rebel Food Sharings in Florida
Following Saturday's arrest of 7 Food Not Bombs activists in downtown Tampa, there has been another flurry of social media outrage regarding the criminalization of homelessness. Like the last several...
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Surprise Eviction at Stranahan Camp
Bulldozer trashing homeless campFriday afternoonJust before 3 pm on Friday, May 20th, the City of Fort Lauderdale abruptly announced the temporary closure of Stranahan Park due to health...
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Storage Ban Law Sued in Federal Court
In 2014, the City of Fort Lauderdale passed a series of homeless hate laws, to which this blog was dedicated to reporting on. This week, the 2014 storage ban law became the 2nd of these laws sued in...
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Sharing Ban v2 August 22nd
The final vote for the new sharing ban law is Tuesday, August 22nd and will go into effect immediately after it is voted on. It's time to let the City know what people think of that...again!City...
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Week of Action to Resist the New Sharing Ban
The City of Fort Lauderdale is quietly passing a revised version of its infamous 2014 sharing ban on Tuesday, August 22nd, its next City Commission meeting. If passed, it will go into effect...
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FTL's New Homeless Policy Exists, is Important and Under-Reported
1 year ago, in the aftermath of the City of Fort Lauderdale's semi-secret meeting at the Women's Club, and subsequent raid on the homeless camp at Stranahan Park, future Mayor Dean Trantalis called...
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