Mykal Banta, library assistant director, helps Audrey Vassallo at the monthly Wash & Read at the Laundry Stop. The library gives away cards for the machines and paperbacks. Photos by Bruce Bennett / The Coastal Star
By Ron Hayes
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The good people of Boca Raton are in position to build the first homeless kibbutz in the USA. The United States’ shelter system for homeless people is a failed system. It makes nothing better, it only makes the situation worse.
It is time to
People are living in parks,
woods near city’s downtown
Billy Palmieri shows off a “Boca” tattoo on the inside of his arm. He is part of a group
of homeless people who camp in the woods in Boca Raton.
A homeless person sleeps under a blanket beneath
A new faith-based charity in Boca Raton is providing showers and laundry assistance
for the city’s chronically homeless population.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Every large city, even Boca Raton, has its homeless people. People of faith, commi
