Miami to ban homeless encampments, arrest residents. Advocates say that's the crime

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "We can't arrest our way out of homelessness," said David Peery, an attorney, plaintiff in the Pottinger Agreement and chairman of the Advocacy Committee of the Camillus Health Concern Consumer Advisory Board, a nonprofit that provides healthcare and social services to homeless and poor people in Miami-Dade County.

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