The city of Phoenix is in the final phase of clearing out the so-called “Zone” downtown, after a judge ordered it to do so earlier this year. The several hundred people who have called the area home for years are being relocated — the city hopes into housing that will last.
The Show took a look at the challenges facing a different population of people experiencing homelessness in Arizona: the growing rural homeless population.
Outside of Apache Junction, not far from the tourist hotspot Goldfield Ghost Town, people have been camping in trailers or tents — sometimes for years. But now, the Bureau of Land Management is changing the rules, converting the 1,100 acres into a recreation area with picnic tables and horse hitching posts.
The Arizona Republic's Sasha Hupka joined The Show to talk more about it.
