Posted on 05/17/2015 12:39:25 PM PDT by Theoria
Tasked with marketing Miami to tourists and investors, the tax-funded Downtown Development Authority has plenty of maps highlighting restaurants, tourist attractions and real estate development.
On Thursday, they unveiled their latest: a detailed map showing where people popped a squat on downtown streets.
The scatological atlas, smiling poop emojis and all, was created amid a swirling dispute between downtown boosters and the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust over how to get homeless men and women off the street, and how to deal with corresponding sanitation issues. The two public agencies have been feuding for about a year now, dating back to the creation of a temporary shelter program at Camillus House, and more recently with the DDA’s promotion of souped-up porta-potties.
Long-time Homeless Trust Chairman Ron Book balks at both as ill-conceived initiatives already studied and rejected by the Trust, which focuses primarily on providing housing for the homeless. In response, he has been criticized as a “dictator” blind to downtown issues, who is flushing millions down the drain.
As part of an effort to shame Book and urge the Trust to reconsider, the DDA spent eight hours Friday documenting urine and feces, and then released its map, where the agency says feces was spotted during a sanitation worker’s eight-hour Friday shift.
Now, there’s little hope of wiping the slate clean.
“As the chief advocate for downtown Miami's growing base of residents, businesses and visitors from around the world, the Miami DDA has been making the case that homelessness is having a disproportionate impact on our urban core for years, and yet The Homeless Trust has resorted to passing the buck and ignoring the problem,” executive director Alyce Robertson said Thursday in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
> flushing millions down the drain
Turds or dollars?
Click here for Harry Reid
Click here for Michelle Obama
But they'd all sound like Peter Defazio...
lol
Maimi is all poop.
We are becoming a third world nation.
In Portland Maine we hear about it all of the time. Right now it is the issue de jour due to a planned closing of an overflow shelter that is really not needed.
In Honolulu they catch the last bus to the airport and spend the night there.
Nice,huh?
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ah man, I really stepped on this subject.
Isn’t it a colossal joy watching our country turn into the Third World? Homelessness, sidewalks as toilets, street vending and begging ... lovely.
One of the problems of homelessness is the lack of hygene. Bathing in the river is a luxury and eliminating body waste is down a storm drain or anywhere that works. Anywhere that works becomes a public health problem. Someone with a great innovative mind should design a foil proof public toilet that the homeless can’t destroy. Then the homeless can’t crap on our public health because it works for them.
never saw anything like this in all my travels around the world... until i spent 2 yrs in san francesspool.
gawd, i really detest everyone on the left
Ah for the olden days of vagrancy laws!
It does! Like some sort of a Pac-Man/Frogger thing goin’ on!
And the Dog’s name in the link’s story is ‘Hershey’!!! LOL!! (”Did you do that Hershey?....is that yours?....don’t lie Hershey, we have your DNA match”)
I have a lot of respect and admiration of the hard working people from countries like Japan and China, but to be honest, they seem to have a relationship with all aspects of the toilet that is far more deep and complex than the average American.
That was funny! The worst part is that Poop-Zilla left the men’s room first, so anyone coming in now will attribute all the ‘turmoil’ to the innocent businessman still in there.
Miami. We’ve had enough s### from you!
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