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Advocates press trust for formal reporting slot for people with lived experience as debate grows over Miami Beach navigation center
Summary
Advocates and members of the trust’s lived-experience work group urged the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust to create a mandatory reporting slot for people directly impacted by trust policies. The item was debated alongside updates on the Bikini Hostel navigation center in Miami Beach and broader outreach work.
Community advocates and people with lived experience urged the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust to create a mandatory reporting slot at meetings for people who are directly impacted by the trust’s policies.
David Perry, identified himself as executive director of the Miami Coalition to Advance Racial Equity (MCARE), said the board’s published reports include slots for the executive director, the Chapman Partnership and a public-relations firm but not a specific, recurring report from people with lived experience. “The people impacted by the trust policies occupy a very special place apart from the general public,” Perry said, and asked the board to add a mandatory reporting slot under the “reports” item so impacted people would have regular, formal…
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