{"id":2272507,"date":"2024-06-20T12:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-housing-program-stops-amid-homeless-training-how-to-squat\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:32:13","slug":"florida-housing-program-stops-amid-homeless-training-how-to-squat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-housing-program-stops-amid-homeless-training-how-to-squat\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida housing initiative halts due to training homeless on squatting practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflorida-housing-program-stops-amid-homeless-training-how-to-squat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2272507&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The provided text\u2064 appears incomplete and cuts off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-climate-official-on-people-producing-emissions-we-have-to-break-your-will\/\" title=\"Massachusetts Climate Official On People Producing Emissions: \u2018We Have To Break Your Will\u2019\">mid-sentence<\/a>, but from the content\u200d given, it\u200c mentions a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-city-approves-first-government-reparations-program-in-us\/\" title=\"Illinois City Approves First Government Reparations Program In US\">housing program<\/a> in Florida\u2063 that ended operations. The closure\u2064 was triggered after a client of the\u2062 program refused to leave. More \u2064context is needed to fully understand the specifics of the incident, including\u2064 the reasons behind the client&#8217;s refusal to leave\u2064 and the consequences of the program&#8217;s closure.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A housing program in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Florida<\/a> closed its doors after one of its clients refused to leave, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>laws<\/a> on \u201csquatting,\u201d according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The program, Matthew\u2019s Hope, operating in Winter Garden, Florida, stopped operations when one of the people in its transitional housing community broke its rules and refused to leave, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/investigators\/2024\/06\/18\/winter-garden-homeless-organization-claim-squatters-shut-down-housing-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>ClickOrlando.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The client, who identified himself as Dennis Dewan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/convicted-murderer-turned-activist-in-baltimore-wants-the-city-to-pay-criminals-not-to-kill\/\" title=\"Convicted Murderer Turned Activist in Baltimore Wants the City to Pay Criminals Not to Kill\">told local news<\/a>, \u201cYou have to have an eviction notice from the courts,\u201d and claimed the program owed him money for work performed during the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not leaving until I get my money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Billue, who founded the program 14 years ago, said the clients have been \u201ccoaching\u201d each other on how to squat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe literally have had a small group \u2014 an effective group \u2014 training each other, if you will, and coaching each other on how to squat,\u201d he said, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Billue added that he contacted the police but claimed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-nashville-police-to-provide-details-of-investigation-into-covenant-school-shooter\/\" title=\"Nashville Police Ordered to Disclose Covenant School Shooter Investigation Details\">police department refused<\/a> to remove the client. When contacted by the outlet, the department reportedly sent a written statement that said, in part, \u201cMatthew\u2019s Hope allowed these people to live in these residential units in exchange for services or work they do for Matthew\u2019s Hope. To our knowledge, Matthew\u2019s Hope has not sought an eviction through the judicial process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report further suggests police will have the power to remove the tenants after July 1, when HB 621, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), goes into effect. The bill would make refusing to leave a property after being told to vacate a second-degree felony.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew&#8217;s Hope, a transitional housing program in Winter Garden, Florida, ceased operations after a client refused to vacate the premises, invoking squatting laws. The closure followed the individual&#8217;s breach of program rules, as reported by ClickOrlando.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3042,"featured_media":2272508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP23191705785729.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP23191705785729.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}