Sex Offender Offers Housing to Other Sex Offenders
Neighbors say he is bringing down property values
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Laws to protect children from sex offenders are make it almost impossible for them to find a place to live. One sex offender is trying to solve that problem.
Now that sex offenders are being evicted from their encampment underneath the Julia Tuttle Causeway – the same location where they were ordered to live in the first place – a South Florida businessman might be their only savior.
Randy Young, a registered sex offender, buys and rents houses in order to lease them out to other sex offenders, who are highly restricted as to where they are allowed to live, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
And since the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Miami-Dade County this month, arguing that the county’s 2,500-foot restriction from where children gather pre-empts the state’s 1,000-foot restriction, the City of Miami sent its code enforcers out there in an attempt to shut it down.
So it is likely that the sex offenders will eventually be forced to move, even though it was the Miami-Dade Department of Corrections that ordered them under the bridge in the first place.
And that is where Young might be able to help. However, his neighbors are none too pleased and accuse him of bringing down property values.
