Fort Lauderdale is moving funds previously considered for the FIFA World Cup to its homelessness budget instead.
The city formally torpedoed a $350,000 proposal to fund events in the county around the soccer tournament, which is being held in Miami and 15 other cities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada next summer.
It comes just weeks after a Miami-Dade commissioner asked for a halt to $46 million in county funds for the World Cup, on the back of major cuts to county services and staffing in the proposed budget for next year…