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According to the 2022 Broward County Affordable Housing Needs Assessment, in the last five years 25,000 homes in the county that had been considered affordable now carry higher prices, and 32% of ...
Starting this month, undocumented immigrants, homeless people and others can apply for a “community ID” card through Legal Aid Service of Broward County. The county-funded Community ...
Women in Distress (WID) is a nationally accredited, state-certified, full service domestic violence center in Broward County, Florida. [2] WID adopts an empowerment based model. [3] WID provides victims of domestic violence with safe shelter, crisis intervention and resources, and raises community awareness through intervention, education and ...
About 8,500 of Florida’s homeless live across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties amid waiting lists for affordable housing. Broward has about 1,650 people wanting housing, up from 1,220 two years ago. Only a handful of the county’s 700 shelter beds become available daily.
Like with many homeless communities in the US, violence is an issue that takes place in homeless tent encampments, trailer encampments, and shelters. This includes both crimes of unhoused people victimizing fellow unhoused people, and housed people committing a crime against an unhoused person, sometimes solely or mainly due to the fact that ...
In 2023, Fort Lauderdale had 780 homeless residents, up substantially from 2022’s count of 415, according to the city’s online dashboard. The city has a goal of reducing homelessness by 250 ...
Homeless women with children are more likely to live with family or friends than those without children, and this group is treated with higher priority by both the government and society. [145] In 2020, homeless mothers had a much higher prevalence of depression, at 40 to 85%, compared to 12% in women of all socioeconomic groups. Homeless ...
St. Joseph County Commissioner Carl Baxmeyer starts a press conference Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in the County-City Building on a task force seeking alternative sites for a low-barrier homeless ...