Ron Book Predicts Miami Will End Homelessness Next Year (Updated)
As we previously reported in the Florida News Radio post, Ron Book is promising to make the Miami/Dade area the first urban area in the nation to end homelessness as we know it today.
In an interview with Glenna Milberg of Local10 News WPLG, Book gave a most impressive interview, giving plenty of documentation to show how he planned on achieving this goal. Again, though, he never addresses the homeless problem for registered persons in the Miami/Dade area, primarily because that would require rolling back the 2500-foot residence restriction that he lobbied to pass in the Miami/Dade area and throughout the state/country.
Why won’t Mr. Book discuss the elephant in the room?
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Miami-Dade Co. has the second highest percentage of Registered Persons who are homeless (514 of 1,642, or 31%), behind Broward Co., according to the 2024 Triennial Report by Florida’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA). Both counties were among the first to pass residency restriction ordinances beyond the state’s1000 foot rule, and both have a far higher percentage of homess persons forced to register than any other county in Florida.
Anyone do a more recent count?
Well it’s been over a year Mr. Book. How’s that prediction going?
He’s holding the new state statute outlawing sleeping in public spaces in his back pocket. All Miami Dade has to do is NOT provide an approved area for the homeless to encamp and BANG he’s bussed them all out of the county and looked wonderful doing it. Don’t house them.. don’t make it easier for them to find housing….. just kick them down the road…..
Regardless of if someone is religious, here is a bible verse that Book is ignoring.
Matthew 25:40
The king will answer them, ‘I tell all of you with certainty, since you did it for one of the least important of these brothers of mine, you did it for me’.
Basically, it is saying if you do something good for one person, you should do so for everyone. It is NOT saying to do good for just those who you believe deserve it. Authorities keep kicking the can down the road making us all “Someone else’s problem”. Eventually there will be nowhere for us to go.
And I have even seen some cities trying to kick people out of their homes, due to retro-active distance ordinances.