When Marilyn Muñoz heard that soon-to-be Palm Beach County Mayor Sara Baxter was pushing to hold next year’s annual Mayors’ Ball to help the homeless at Mar-a-Lago, she was struck by the absurdity of the proposal.

“Our current administration just disappeared all the homeless out of Washington, D.C.,” said Muñoz, referring to President Donald Trump’s recent crackdown on homeless encampments in the capital. “So it’s kind of weird to think of having it at Mar-a-Lago. It’s just not a good look.”

As the former longtime director of the Homeless Coalition , which organizes and benefits from the gala, Muñoz is more than a little surprised that an event that began with such harmony has morphed into a battle that threatens not just the gala but the work of the nearly 40-year-old agency that

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