In July, 2021, the city of Glendale, AZ, with a general population of about 250,000 residents, announced a new program to “help homeless.” You will find it on the city website in the news section. Sounds like good news, right? It appears that Glendale Community College was given some cash…
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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…
Continue ReadingSober Living Homes Face Licensing and Inspection Compliance
Sober Living home face new regulations According to the budget there are not any current state licensing requirements or reglations of properties being used as Sober Living facilities. These are homes in the community with shared bedrooms that provides interim housing for people successfully leaving a recovery program.
Continue ReadingVendors vs. Distributors
The word Vendors is used here as it is what is used by the industry. We operate within the City of Phoenix boundaries. The city currently has an ordiance that requires all street vendors to be individually certified with a large city fee, background check and finger-printing. Also, this ordinance…
Continue ReadingCity Adds Staff and Enforcement to End Homelessness?
Certain announcements and recent events led me to study in depth the City of Phoenix approved budgets for 2018-19 and 2019-20. As stated by several city officals before, there is not one defined department and there doesn’t show any direct funds budgeted to end homelessness. Instead there is funding from…
Continue ReadingWhat 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…
Continue ReadingIs Arizona Hoarding Funds Set A Side for Homeless?
Our govenor Doug Ducey signed a bill into law last month authorizing $50 million dollars in response to the statewide health crisis. Only $6.7 million is set aside to support food programs AND address the homelessness issues. Included in this funding, $5 million will go toward assisting homeless shelters in…
Continue ReadingPhoenix Responds to Crisis Much Differently Than LA
The only thing that’s worse than having lots of people living in encampments is throwing them out of the encampments and making them more vulnerable,” Los Angeles council member Mike Bonin
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An Interview on homelessness worth listening to!
Who or What is the Gaggle
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