A building fire over the weekend is causing all kinds of problems for the tenants and the city of Miami.
Around 300 low-income residents, many of them elderly, lost their homes after an electrical fire on Friday at the Congress Inn downtown forced fire officials to temporarily condemn the building.
Now, people can't get back inside the 20-story complex to get vital belongings or their medication.
City officials said they plan on using money that would go toward homeless shelter programs to help the displaced tenants find affordable housing in other parts in the city, but claim there is not much that can be done about going into the burned complex because it is a safety issue.
Police said there was an altercation at the building site early Monday as frustration boiled over about the situation. Many of the tenants slept with friends over the weekend or stayed at a nearby hotel, hoping to get inside.
The Related Group, which owns the building, returned March's rent back to the tenants, but no moves have been made to help get personal items out of the apartments.
Fire officials don't plan on opening the doors to the building for at least three weeks.
