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Twenty minutes later, the officer introduced Jeanette Berry, founder and president of Operation Community Care, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing life necessities to youth, families and the homeless or displaced.
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Staff Artist, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
Now, city officials are celebrating their success — despite criticism from advocates who say Miami Beach is simply pushing the homeless population into jails, shelters and the street in other parts of the county.
—Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
She gets roughed up by the homeless shelter’s resident sociopath (Lea Delaria, who is riveting) and meets comrades like the sweet Nova (Demi Lovato) and the combative Denise (Ariana DeBose), who’s as difficult as Amanda is.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
Drugs continue to kill hundreds of people a year — more than half of the homeless deaths in 2025 involved fentanyl, methamphetamines or other substances — but countless overdoses have been stopped.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
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Staff Artist, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
Now, city officials are celebrating their success — despite criticism from advocates who say Miami Beach is simply pushing the homeless population into jails, shelters and the street in other parts of the county.
—Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
She gets roughed up by the homeless shelter’s resident sociopath (Lea Delaria, who is riveting) and meets comrades like the sweet Nova (Demi Lovato) and the combative Denise (Ariana DeBose), who’s as difficult as Amanda is.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026
Drugs continue to kill hundreds of people a year — more than half of the homeless deaths in 2025 involved fentanyl, methamphetamines or other substances — but countless overdoses have been stopped.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
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“The homeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20homeless. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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