Mr. Ben Burton

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  Ben Burton has been the Executive Director of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless, Inc for the last 7 years. The Miami Coalition for the Homeless, Inc. focuses on homeless prevention, advocacy, and resource coordination.
  
  Mr. Burton was Assistant Executive Director of Community Friendship, Inc., a psychosocial rehabilitation agency, and held administrative positions from 1989-1999. He was founding Board President of Georgia Rehabilitation Outreach from 1999-2005, a psychiatric housing and services organization. He was founding Secretary of the Living Room, which is an HIV/AIDS housing and services agency from 1998-2000.
  
  More recently, he was the Clinical Director of Carrfour Supportive Housing from 2000-2001, a Co-Chair of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Providers Forum from 2001-2002, he has been a Co-Chair of the Community Coalition for a Living wage from 2001-present, he is an active member of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust's Housing and Service Development Committees, he was the Homeless Cluster Representative to the Alliance for Human Services from 2003-2007. He is currently also a member of the Miami-Dade County Community Action Agency Board 2007-Present.
  
  Mr. Burton has over twenty years of experience working with people experiencing homelessness and extensive experience implementing programs for varied populations including the most difficult to serve homeless and mentally ill residents. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Biology, completed a Health Professions Program at Harvard University, and has a Masters in Clinical Psychology. Mr. Burton is licensed as a Professional Counselor and a Mental Health Counselor in several states. He is also nationally certified as a Counselor and internationally certified as a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Professional.

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  Ben Burton, Miami Coalition for the Homeless

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  Ben Burton, executive director of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless, argued it is another example of government responding to homelessness by criminalizing it.
  
  "I don't think we ought to blame the victim," Burton told commissioners.
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  Ben Burton, executive director of Miami Coalition for the Homeless, said last month he hopes the city will "more narrowly define what they mean by panhandling."
  
  The ordinance now says only that "soliciting, begging or panhandling is prohibited within the downtown business district" but does not define the three terms.
  
  The wording "leaves it open to subjective interpretation by law enforcement," Mr. Burton said.
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  "The coalition believes that these types of ordinances marginalize and criminalize the poor and homeless in our community," said Ben Burton, executive director of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless.
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  The executive director of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless, Benjamin Burton offered another perspective. "I think this really just means people do not want to see poor people," Burton told us.

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  "We think it's enough to have 30 days in jail or a fine, not 30 days in jail and a fine," said Ben Burton, executive director of Miami Coalition for the Homeless.
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  Mr. Burton said he plans to ask for the change at today's meeting."Most people are out there asking for money because they don't have any," he said, adding that "we don't think there should be an ordinance at all."He did acknowledge, though, that the development authority "has shown some good faith" in working with advocates for the homeless to improve the proposed legislation."If there's going to be an ordinance," he said, "I think this one is much better than the one that was proposed at the beginning."

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  Benjamin Burton, executive director of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless, echoed her complaint.
  
  "I don't really understand why they didn't work with us," he said, adding that the city already has an "aggressive panhandling" ordinance on the books.
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  But Burton said he would be willing to work with the city to hammer out a final version.

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  Ben Burton, executive director of Miami Coalition for the Homeless, said last month he hopes the city will "more narrowly define what they mean by panhandling."The ordinance now says only that "soliciting, begging or panhandling is prohibited within the downtown business district" but does not define the three terms.The wording "leaves it open to subjective interpretation by law enforcement," Mr. Burton said.

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  Ben Burton, Miami Coalition of the Homeless, and Paola Pierre, vice president of administration, Human Services Coalition HSC - Human Services Coalition - Prosperity Ball 2008
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  Ben Burton, Miami Coalition of the Homeless, and Paola Pierre, vice president of administration, Human Services Coalition

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  Ben Burton, Miami Coalition of the Homeless, and Paola Pierre, vice president of administration, Human Services Coalition

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  Ben Burton, Miami Coalition of the Homeless, and Paola Pierre, vice president of administration, Human Services Coalition

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  Award recipients are pictured with Yvonne Grassie, president of the Miami Coaltion for the Homeless and Ben Burton, executive director.
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  Award recipients are pictured with Yvonne Grassie, president of the Miami Coaltion for the Homeless and Ben Burton, executive director.

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