Steven Leifman, a judge and finance chair of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust, has been advocating for a new mental health center to treat individuals with severe mental health illnesses in order to keep them off the street and out of jail. He has secured funds from opioid settlement dollars to launch a two-year pilot program at a facility in Miami's Allapattah neighborhood. However, approval from county commissioners was delayed due to concerns about the long-term costs of the facility once the one-time installment of funds is exhausted. Commissioner Raquel Regalado suggested that the center should go before the full board of county commission.