Posted on 08/08/2022 11:54:53 AM PDT by dynachrome
Miami residents are up in arms over a pilot program to build an encampment for homeless people on a secluded beach that’s just a stone’s throw away from an exclusive island that was once home to Oprah Winfrey, Derek Jeter, and Mel Brooks.
Miami-Dade County’s seventh district sparked anger after it quietly approved a plan to build between 50 and 100 miniature houses in the North Point Park section of Virginia Key Beach.
Residents are upset over the plan for a variety of reasons, according to reports.
Environmentalists believe the encampment will destroy the island’s fragile ecosystem, while recreational enthusiasts think it will hamper their ability to spend time outdoors unhindered, according to The Daily Beast.
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And they are going to build them houses?
Wonder what those houses will look like after a year.
Often wondered what Habitat for Humanity houses looked after a year.
Fisher Island is named after Carl Fisher, one of the guys who built the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and later a major developer of Miami Beach.
Why not round them and keep them in some abandoned military base while they are examined physically and mentally. I suspect most everyone could be considered a hazard to public health one way or another. The mentally damaged place in a asylum. Provide job training for those capable, and the rest keep in assisted living institutions. But get them off the streets.
In a midcoast Maine town there are plans to convert a former doctors’ building into apartments for the homeless.
The bums should be rounded up and charged with vagrancy, then put on chain gangs.
A Better place would be off in the Everglades where there are thousands of acres and they won’t be a bother to anyone but themselves.
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But the environmental report will show that the increase in gator farts will harm the planet.
The mentally damaged place[d] in a asylum.
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I agree, but where are these asylums?
In LA county, it is the County Jail.
Outside of CA, I don’t know, but seriously am seeking this information.
No /s this time.
Chappaqua, NY and Martha’s Vineyard would make perfect locations for homeless havens.
“ fragile ecosystem”
Snort
Fragile NIMBY’s more like
“..where are these asylums..”
The lefty state government closed them. Time to open up again. We cannot allow the homeless continue controlling our streets.
We cannot allow the homeless continue controlling our streets.
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I know some of this history.
Meanwhile, it is NOT compassionate to let the mentally ill roam the street, off their meds.
I've never met a business man that if you cut deep enough, would turn out to be all about getting more money. Never. Always working a deal to profit themselves. And always a bigger piece of the pie.
good, now build a homeless shelter and low income project complex in the Hamptons.
NIMBY.
What hypocrites.
Support the homeless, but not in their neighborhood.
Let someone else deal with the riff-raff.
Pity if the supply ships dont show up on time.
They started a homeless camp in downtown Cincinnati a couple years ago. Same poop on the sidewalk stuff as San Francisco.
At the same time, I constantly had raccoons trying to eat my exotic chickens.
So I started live trapping the raccoons, sometimes 3-4 per day, and would take them downtown and let them loose. And bring along a few boxes of peanut butter cracker packs to toss among the tents.
The invasion of raccoons even made it onto the local news and was talked about by Bill Cunningham on the air.
A couple of times a month, a barge backs up to leave food, supplies and collect the corpses of those who have gone to druggie heaven for cremation. While it sounds harsh, it is actually a good deal kinder than our system of enabling them and enriching their dealers.
The wealthy have likely been anchoring their yachts by the island to picnic.
NIMBYs.
Probably not a single DeSantis voter among them.
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