The bill would prohibit cities from allowing unhoused people to sleep or camp on public property and rights of way.
Unhoused people bed down for the night outdoors in the alcoves of the Sarasota County Jail building in Sarasota, Florida, on April 8, 2016.
“It’s an incredibly discriminatory, racist, elitist, and repressive bill that looks to dehumanize the poor, the Black, and the homeless and designate people as undesirable and take them out of the cities where they can’t afford these increasingly unaffordable, escalating skyrocketing rents and put them into camps outside of cities,” said David Peery, a formerly houseless advocate and the founder of Miami Coalition to Advance Racial Equity.
“One of the reasons why this proposal is unlikely to work is because … nobody is going to want any type of homeless camp near where they work or live,” Peery said, adding that legislators are “blinded” by their hatred of the poor. “That just tells you that in their mind it’s, ‘Let’s just deport them to uninhabited islands. They’re out of sight, out of mind.
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