Florida introduces law allowing residents to sue over homeless people on the streets
Citizens can sue local authorities if they do not prohibit people from camping in public places in a state where more than 31,000 were left homeless last year
It’s been a busy week for volunteers at the Camillus House shelter, who are racing to create spaces for homeless people to stay warm. The sky in Miami is the same as always, clear blue, with clouds of all shapes and sunshine that illuminates everything it touches, but temperatures remain below 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius), a “winter” just for them, a climate Floridians know very little about. Last Thursday, a day that meteorologists recorded as the coldest in South Florida in the past two years, volunteers were seen walking around downtown to offer several people the chance to get off the streets and occupy the 50 beds they have prepared at the shelter.
