Miami-Dade's choice: Spare 150 seniors homelessness or save taxpayers $14 million

Homeless Trust Chairman Ron Book talks to a frail, 83-year-old woman on a bus bench on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach the night of Aug. 22. The trust was conducting its summer 'Point In Time' headcount of the homeless. The woman was placed in transitional housing that night.

By Noreen Marcus, FloridaBulldog.org

Up to 150 seniors who can’t afford to live in Miami-Dade County unaided are likely to soon benefit from a new state law that’s forcing local governments to segregate their homeless residents.

The county’s Homeless Trust is about to buy and retrofit for seniors the La Quinta Inn, a 105-room motel in Cutler Bay, a town in South Miami-Dade. It’s one of the first efforts in Florida to respond to the new state law by considering the purchase of a motel to house the homeless.

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Miami-Dade's choice: Spare 150 seniors homelessness or save taxpayers $14 million

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