Recently, the Miami Herald published an article entitled, "Get with him or get out of his way: Ron Book’s on a mission from God to end homelessness." (Max Klaver March 20, 2025 5:00 AM), where Ron Book claims he's on some kind of divine mission to end homelessness:
"Ending homelessness in Miami-Dade is his 'mission,' he says, given to him by 'the big guy upstairs,' and he wants to make good on it before he’s no longer here."
Kudos to Max Klaver for at least making a passing mention of the unique homeless crisis Ron Book and his daughter created, though more should have been mentioned about this issue:
"...Book took to the warpath, lobbying hard throughout Miami-Dade and Florida to punish child sex offenders with restrictions on where they could live. The limitations were great enough that many fell into homelessness and formed an infamously squalid encampment — which they christened “Bookville” — under the Julia Tuttle Causeway.
For Book the lobbyist, and for Book the understandably vindictive father, the restrictions were a win. But Book the Trust chairman found himself responsible for placing those same homeless offenders in housing. The Homeless Trust spent months negotiating fervent NIMBYism as it scoured Miami-Dade for lodging options, limited by the same sex offender housing restrictions for which Book had previously fought so ardently."
Yes, "Bookville", the unique, terrible homeless camp formed under the Julia Tuttle Causeway, created by the Book Crime Family (at least in the sense of passing the laws that made the camp necessary), was dismantled about 15 years ago. The Miami-Dade County Ordinance nullifies all municipal codes to create a unified countywide ordinance that applies to all municipalities equally, which at least made a unified standard across the county and opened up a nominal amount of housing.
Miami-Dade Co. has the second highest percentage of Registered Persons who are homeless (514 of 1,642, or 31%), behind Broward Co., according to the 2024 Triennial Report by Florida's Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA). Both counties were among the first to pass residency restriction ordinances beyond the state's1000 foot rule, and both have a far higher percentage of homess persons forced to register than any other county in Florida.
Ronald Lee Book and his daughter Lauren CREATED a unique homeless crisis in South Florida, a crisis that continues to exist even as the convicted criminal continues to operate as the head of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust (until at least the end of 2027, according to the Miami-Herald article).
This crisis is on a whole new level. While this video is from 2016, the homeless registrants that are stuck in Miami-Dade County continue to live like this:
I feel this with all of my heart--Ron Book and his entire family of assorted ruffians and criminals should be sitting in a prison cell, and if they're ever released, then they should be homeless and forced to llive under a bridge.
What kind of a "God" would allow a missionary of the faith to INCREASE homelessness and force people to live in squalor? If his "god' is "upstairs," then Ron Book and his dauther must walk on their hands.
