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...fear that customers will be driven away if vagrants take over a block. Fort Lauderdale is considering a number of antihomeless measures, largely because street people are bad for tourism. "There is a perception that downtown is unsafe; even the mayor was robbed at gunpoint," says City Commissioner John Rodstrom. He proposes spending more money to help street people, "but we are caught between a rock and a hard place. We don't want to make it too attractive for vagrants to come here." In Yonkers, N.Y., the Calvary Center Church has run afoul of the city administration by sheltering...