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Every holiday season we pause to think about the unhoused. We drop off pantry staples, donate clothing or volunteer for a day. Then the holidays end and life moves on, but the crisis continues. Homelessness may feel seasonal, but it is a daily struggle playing out in every corner of Miami Dade County.

What many residents do not realize is that Miami Dade built a year round system for this work long before it was fashionable to talk about homelessness. In the early nineties more than eight thousand people lived on our streets. Governor Lawton Chiles responded by bringing business and community leaders together in 1992, work that led to the creation of the Miami Dade County Homeless Trust in 1995. It was funded through a one percent Food and Bev

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