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Ron DeSantis condemned over Florida’s ‘draconian’ new anti-homelessness law

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Florida law criminalizes sleeping in public spaces and will take effect next month .

Fort Lauderdale mayor Dean Trantalis says his city is scrambling to find a way of complying with the law.

He says it will provoke a tsunami of lawsuits’ but will do nothing to alleviate state’s homelessness crisis.

Stephen Schnably , professor of law at the University of Miami , said the bill doesn’t solve homelessness and instead makes a “political point out of it’s not really providing state funding towards it,” he said.

Schnably also pointed out that encampments for the homeless did not work.