Miami commissioner proposes “adopt-a-homeless” program, causing uproar among activists
“’This can not in any way be a serious proposal,’ said David Peery, an attorney who works with homeless people, who was once homeless himself. ‘Commissioner Carollo is distracting attention away from a very serious problem that we have with homelessness in our city … It feels intended to make fun of activists,’ he said, adding that the resolution was taking away from having a ‘substantive discussion’ about solutions to end homelessness […] ‘How could I tell people that live in Little Havana, Little Haiti, Allapattah, Liberty City and Flagami that we can’t build housing for them, who have been working, struggling to pay ridiculous rents?’ he said. ‘But we’re going to build housing for people living in the streets?'”