Florida set to ban homeless from sleeping on public property

the vanan on homeless camps has passed in Florida's Senate Vanessa Medina is in Fort Lauderdale now with more on what this means for cities and counties across the Sunshine State Workers with Broward County strategic housing out Wednesday at the bus terminal on Broward Boulevard helping many homeless people with Services being here reaching out to people do you want help do you want shelter you do you want to get clean and sober would you like to go to detox and so we have been really quite succ

essful in um our getting people help life for many homeless people across South Florida about to change 27 y 12 days Madam president show the bill passes the bill places the burden on cities and counties to ban people from sleeping in public places forcing local governments to create encampment sites come October they're going to be a different landscape for the homeless you're not going to be able to the bus benches and in the street benches you're not going to be able to utilize them it's very

important that this bill not get to the level where it criminalizes homelessness by saying you can't be here it's unlawful for you to be here so now we're going to take you to jail we're going to our count is going to do everything within their power to make sure that doesn't happen Governor Ronda Santa supports the bill and will sign it into law within the week when you say that Miami will have to provide sanitation but Hamilton County will not for the same class of species which is a human be

ing nonstarter abono this bill is crap this bill does not and it will not address the more pressent and root cause of homelessness people would be placed uh either voluntarily or involuntarily in the encampments where uh nothing has been provided for their safety for sanitation for uh run water however Ron book of the Miami dat homeless trust says the bill is not perfect 10 cities don't work but it's a start there are three things you need in homelessness you need a plan you need money and you n

eed leadership nobody wants homelessness in their Community we have to work to end it together implementing this program Statewide would cost over $500 million there's no appropriation attached to this legislation Vanessa Medina 7 News