Proposal for New Homeless Shelter Continues Wednesday

The second meeting of the "Ad Hoc Central Fort Lauderdale Committee" for the Broward Homelessness Continuum of Care Board (COC) was a few weeks ago. Once again, the focus of the discussion turned towards a new day shelter for downtown Fort Lauderdale. One that would solve problems such as the storage ban and further reduce the chronically homeless population of downtown.

While it wouldn't solve all the problems downtown, there are some pretty big benefits to this idea. The ad hoc committee has passed a recommendation for this shelter to the full CoC board, for discussion this Wednesday at 10 am at Government Center. If it passes here, the recommendation will be moved to the Broward County Commission, who would have the power necessary to enforce it.

This shelter may have the power to save lives, and change the course of people's futures. Hopefully the rest of Broward County sees it the same way. It's a bit hard to tell if the idea has much traction in the halls of power and the general public since absolutely no one besides this site has been reporting on this issue. CoC board members have been talking about this since at least July...hopefully this becomes newsworthy soon?