BRICKBATS & BOUQUETS

BOUQUETS TO FLORIDA BLUE FOUNDATION The philanthropic affiliate of Florida Blue awarded a $150,000 grant to Ability Housing of Northeast Florida – whose mission is to provide quality, affordable, community inclusive housing for individuals and families at risk of homelessness and adults with disabilities – to support “The Solution That Saves,” a statewide pilot program aimed at collecting data on the impacts of providing permanent supportive housing to high utilizers of crisis services.

BRICKBATS TO DEFENDJAXFAMILIES.ORG The website, which is unattributed except to identify its creators as a “broad alliance of Jacksonville citizens,” calls the push to expand the city’s human rights ordinance to include the protections for its LGBT population “a special preference law” and carries a host of useless tabs, including one that reads “No Men in Women’s Bathrooms” and another titled “watchful leftism” where they’ve posted an editorial in which a Folio Weekly Magazine columnist called the domain “a hot mess of a website.”