MIAMI, July 27 (UPI) -- Mostly unemployed Miami sex offenders, on the verge of losing their state-funded housing, face the prospect of becoming homeless, officials said.
Miami-Dade County cleared out a camp of sex offenders living under a bridge a few month ago, but officials fear restricted housing laws requiring sex offenders to stay 2,500 feet away from where children gather and lack of their own money for rent may cause a homeless community elsewhere, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday.
"If they can't afford rent, we may be back to square one. The problem with this solution it was only temporary, a Band-Aid," said Jill Levenson, a professor at Lynn University in Boca Raton who is studying the impact of residency restrictions.
When the camp was torn down, officials found housing for the 92 men and women and funds to pay six months' rent, which cost the county $1 million, the Herald reported.
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