A leading shelter for female victims of domestic violence pleaded with Miami-Dade officials over the weekend not to force more than 60 women and 200 children to find somewhere else to live amid a shortfall in county homeless dollars. Inn Transition North and South, a pair of shelters run by the Junior League of Miami, lost out on about $900,000 of federal aid sought by Miami-Dade’s homeless agency, part of a $5 million miss that last week thrust the county’s network of shelters and other providers into crisis mode. County social workers are meeting with Inn Transition residents Monday and Tuesday, conversations that amount to eviction briefings, representatives of the...
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