Mesa Get’s It!

Mesa, Arizona’s Off the Streets Program is producing great results I have been doing a lot of reading over the last few days, combing over the new Maricopa Associated Governements (MAG) Regional Action Plan for 2022. MAG is collaborating with local governements and municipalities to address the homeless situation from…

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PIT – Point in Time 2020

Last year at this time I could only go off of the 2019 numbers of houseless people counted in the nations one night of counting of an invisible population. This year I was hoping to have 2021 numbers as the PIT is done on a night in January. However, the…

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What would you do with 27 million?

City of Phoenix Plans to house 925 additional people I just posted last week about the lack of plans to spend the additional budgeted monies of the state, county and city set aside to tackle the homelessness crisis in the greater Phoenix area. Governor Doug Ducey put $50 million aside…

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Outreach Homeless Urban Encampment

California’s Homeless Population is growing exponentially…..

This is one of the few articles I have read recently that points to specific actions that have caused this exponential growth. Alicia states the most obvious cause of living without a permanent shelter is the rising cost of housing and the simultaneously decreasing affordable housing units available. It is in the next paragraph though that I see as a very important and often overlooked cause of homelessness.

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Housing First or Not?

The Street Fairy’s thoughts on a recent Canadian Study into the Housing First Model I have heard about the Housing First in San Diego a few years ago, they were beginning this model of supplying housing to homeless veterans and a few county programs first, before connecting them to any…

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