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Homelessness

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    David Raymond, Homeless Trust Director, Retires Amidst Bid-Rigging Lawsuit

    The longtime executive director of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust is set to retire, ending his term atop the agency amidst an ongoing lawsuit accusing him of bid-rigging.David Raymond, who has led the homeless group for a decade, improperly helped steer a $15 million contract to build a 300-bed homel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Old Florida Law Says Sun Life Stadium, American Airlines Arena Should Be Homeless Shelters

    ​Twenty years ago, the state government passed a law that sounded good on a very simple, surface level: all sports facilities that receive public funding must be used as homeless shelters when not in use. Of course, since the law went into effect not a single arena or stadium in the state has been ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Max Rameau, Activist Behind Umoja Village, Takes His Project To DC

    via Take Back the LandMax Rameau​In 2007, amid the champagne-drenched corporate orgy known as the Super Bowl, a busload of reporters found itself on a very different kind of junket. Rather than locker-rooms full of millionaire fat guys, the journalists tiptoed through cardboard shacks populated by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Food Network Star Convicted of Hiring Homeless Men to Kill His Wife for $500

    via Flickr ronnie44052Juan-Carlos's new farmer's market?​This morning, when I first heard that a Food Network star had been arrested and sentenced to jail, I figured that either Rachael Ray or Guy Fieri had finally been charged with prostitution. Instead I find out that the crime is much more sev ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2010

    Letters from the issue of December 9, 2010

    via Flickr ronnie44052Juan-Carlos's new farmer's market?​This morning, when I first heard that a Food Network star had been arrested and sentenced to jail, I figured that either Rachael Ray or Guy Fieri had finally been charged with prostitution. Instead I find out that the crime is much more sev ... More >>

  • News

    November 4, 2010

    Letters from the issue of November 4, 2010

    via Flickr ronnie44052Juan-Carlos's new farmer's market?​This morning, when I first heard that a Food Network star had been arrested and sentenced to jail, I figured that either Rachael Ray or Guy Fieri had finally been charged with prostitution. Instead I find out that the crime is much more sev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Five Hypothetical Homeless-Friendly iPhone Apps

    Photo by Jacob Katel​We recently teamed up with Cleveland Scene for an unconventional clothing drive. Rather than burning beautiful, barely-worn LeBron Cavs jerseys in front of Quicken Loans Arena, we encouraged former LBJ fans to help clothes Miami's homeless by donating their unwanted NBA gear.A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2010

    Q&A with DJ EFN; Charity Event with ¡Mayday! at Transit Lounge Tonight

    ​¡Mayday! has a monthly gig at Transit Lounge where they host the night for one Friday each month. Well, that Friday is tonight. But this particular night at Transit will be extra special as the event will double up as a charity drive in support of Miami's homeless population. Live music featurin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Marc Sarnoff Slammed by Keith Olbermann for Homeless Feeding Ban

    ​Marc Sarnoff's plan to make the Magic City's homeless folks feel a bit more like rodents got the big national airing it deserves last night: a prime place on Keith Olbermann's "Worst People in the World" segment. Olbermann slams the City of Miami commissioner's proposed $300 fine for "un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Ron Book and Romero Britto Bring You The Ugliest Parking Meters Ever

    via brickellinfo​It's a bird! It's a plane! It's another terrible Romero Britto sculpture, only this time it's not just hurting your eyes, it's also taking your spare change. Meters designed by the local hack artist have made their first appearance in Brickell. But, don't blame Britto, blame anoth ... More >>

  • Music

    May 27, 2010

    Howitzer's Memorial Day Veterans Benefit

    via brickellinfo​It's a bird! It's a plane! It's another terrible Romero Britto sculpture, only this time it's not just hurting your eyes, it's also taking your spare change. Meters designed by the local hack artist have made their first appearance in Brickell. But, don't blame Britto, blame anoth ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2010

    Punk Benefit

    via brickellinfo​It's a bird! It's a plane! It's another terrible Romero Britto sculpture, only this time it's not just hurting your eyes, it's also taking your spare change. Meters designed by the local hack artist have made their first appearance in Brickell. But, don't blame Britto, blame anoth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Food News Roundup: Junk Food, Burger King, Passover, and Dream Water

    "Scientists in Florida say overeaters are addicted to junk food in the same way drug addicts are addicted to cocaine and heroin." [AllHeadlineNews]"Project Downtown, an organization that started about two years ago in Miami and now has branches other U.S. cities," continues feeding the homeless. [VO ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Attacks Against the Homeless Could Be Considered Hate Crimes

    ​A bill that would classify certain attacks against the homeless as hate crimes is moving through the state legislature. Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti is championing it after a spate of unprovoked brutality on the homeless in his county, with security camera footage of some of the attacks making the ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 24, 2009

    Stage Capsules

    ​A bill that would classify certain attacks against the homeless as hate crimes is moving through the state legislature. Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti is championing it after a spate of unprovoked brutality on the homeless in his county, with security camera footage of some of the attacks making the ... More >>

  • Culture

    December 10, 2009

    Stage Capsules

    ​A bill that would classify certain attacks against the homeless as hate crimes is moving through the state legislature. Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti is championing it after a spate of unprovoked brutality on the homeless in his county, with security camera footage of some of the attacks making the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Grapeland Water Park Hosts Food Drive For Thanksgiving Homeless

    via miamigov.com​ Just cause your cousin in Milwaukee can't swim in November doesn't mean you can't. This is Miami dammit, home of 89 degree Fall Sundays.Grapeland Water Park (1550 NW 37 Ave) is open, and since Thanksgiving is coming up, they're also collecting canned goods for the Miami Homeless ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    ACLU Stands Up For Banished Sex Offenders

    After a conflict with Miami Police, the sex offenders who have been sent by the state to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway are getting some help from the American Civil Liberties Union. Yesterday the Florida branch of the ACLU delivered a letter to Miami Chief of Police John Timoney asking the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    Channel 10 Squatter Story Sounds Familiar

    Last week, New Times brought you the story of Cassy the squatter, the homeless Haitian mother who moved into a blue, bank-owned foreclosed house in Buena Vista with her young daughter. Her tale included a tribe of activists, a couple broken laws, and a mortgage lender none the wiser.Cassy, whose ... More >>

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Squatters

    Don't cry. Just move into one of those empty homes around the corner.

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2008

    Namaste Miami - It's Yoga in the Grove

    Don't cry. Just move into one of those empty homes around the corner.

  • News

    February 7, 2008

    Counting the Down

    Miami tallies its homeless.

  • News

    December 13, 2007

    Basel's Odysseus

    Overnight with an artist through the hurly-burly of the very rich.

  • Culture

    December 6, 2007

    Hidden Treasure

    You can be thrifty at Basel if you know where to look.

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2007

    Paid to Picket

    You can be thrifty at Basel if you know where to look.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2007

    A Reprieve for the Liberty City Shantytown

    You can be thrifty at Basel if you know where to look.

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2006

    Weaving a Musical Tale

    You can be thrifty at Basel if you know where to look.

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Charity and Checkpoint

    Will the mission's miseries tarnish the perception of Camillus House?

  • Calendar

    January 27, 2005

    Bark Walk

    Will the mission's miseries tarnish the perception of Camillus House?

  • News

    January 27, 2005

    Crack Kills

    A man on the streets experiences the death of his life in a pipe, on a bike, in a lot

  • Finest Foods

    May 13, 2004

    BEST SOUP KITCHEN

    Missionary of Charity

  • News

    April 8, 2004

    Letters from the Issue of April 8, 2004

    Miami’s corruption, midwives’ training, Cobain’s legacy

  • City Life

    May 15, 2003

    BEST HOMELESS HANGOUT

    Lummus Park

  • News

    June 13, 2002

    The Heart Goes for a Haircut

    How to be homeless on Miami Beach

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

    From the issue of May 31, 2001

  • News

    January 14, 1999

    Letters

    From the issue of May 31, 2001

  • News

    January 7, 1999

    Letters

    From the issue of May 31, 2001

  • News

    November 27, 1997

    Letters

    From the issue of May 31, 2001

  • News

    October 9, 1997

    First the Homeless, Now the Jobless

    A funding crisis forces Camillus House to issue seventeen pink slips

  • News

    August 28, 1997

    Strange Man in a Strange Land

    Mauricio Pavez came from Chile to Florida as a tourist. One mugging and eight months later, he refuses to leave.

  • News

    August 1, 1996

    Ambitious to a Fault

    Mauricio Pavez came from Chile to Florida as a tourist. One mugging and eight months later, he refuses to leave.

  • News

    October 12, 1995

    Going South

    Civics and spirituality. Politics and prayer. In the ongoing battle against inertia, Goulds bares the conflicts at its core.

  • News

    September 7, 1995

    Terminally Homeless

    The Coral Gables bus terminal is set for demolition -- presumably after officials address the plight of people living in it

  • Culture

    June 29, 1995

    New Rep on the Block

    The Coral Gables bus terminal is set for demolition -- presumably after officials address the plight of people living in it

  • News

    March 16, 1995

    Forgotten but Not Gone

    The last of the FEMA trailer occupants are now rehoused. The question is: For how long?

  • News

    August 16, 1994

    Psst! Want to Sell Some Food Stamps?

    See, you give me the stamps and I'll give you some money. Well, it's not my money, exactly.

  • News

    February 24, 1993

    Meet the Candidate

    The Rev. Clennon King is unique. Period.

  • News

    December 16, 1992

    Dark Passage

    Which will kill you first: Commuting regularly across I-395 in the pitch blackness, or holding your breath until the DOT fixes the streetlights?

  • News

    September 25, 1991

    Talk Rodeo

    Which will kill you first: Commuting regularly across I-395 in the pitch blackness, or holding your breath until the DOT fixes the streetlights?

  • News

    May 22, 1991

    Keep Off The Grass!

    Which will kill you first: Commuting regularly across I-395 in the pitch blackness, or holding your breath until the DOT fixes the streetlights?

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