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Originally Posted by dewilson58
I wonder how much migration there is (if they can) of homeless from the North (ie: Chicago, NYC, etc.) to the South just because of the weather.
Homeless is terrible, homeless in cold winters has to be deadly.
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When I worked as a Urban Corps Intern at the downtown branch of the Minneapolis Public Library in the History and Travel Department-- under the very nice Ms. Reed-- the homeless would come in as soon as the library opened and sleep on the various benches or at the tables.
I noticed the same influx at times when using the downtown Clearwater Library here in Florida but they had clamped down on sleeping homeless inside the library. You would see them in the shade on the library grounds. They would seek shelter in the rain and also out of the intense heat.
The homeless did not seem at all prevalent at any of the other Tampa Bay area libraries I visited. My guess is that the local police moved them off to somewhere else in these other communities.