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Between 2023 and 2024, homelessness among veterans fell by close to 8% overall and by almost 11% for those without shelter. That’s according to new data from the Departments of Veterans Affairs and of Housing and Urban Development. And advocates say that, with enough funding and focus, it’s the kind of success that could be reproduced.
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Lawsuits and the U.S. Justice Department have forced Phoenix to re-evaluate how to confront the issue of homelessness. On Wednesday, officials plan to celebrate the grand opening of an expanded shelter facility.
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Surprise city officials have reinstated an urban camping ban allowing police to issue citations to people sleeping in public spaces, even when they don’t have access to homeless shelters.
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Arizona voters have passed Proposition 312, which gives property owners a way to recoup some of the costs of cleaning up certain nuisances if their local government doesn’t. But an advocacy group that works to end homelessness is concerned it won’t have the effect voters intended.
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Members of the LGBTQ+ community, like those who are transgender or gender-expansive, experience higher rates of food insecurity than their peers. Food insecurity is especially prevalent among younger individuals.
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Nationwide, roughly 22% of the LGBTQ+ community is food insecure. In Arizona, the data doesn’t really exist — at least not yet. The Arizona Food Bank Network is now surveying this population to find out just how big a problem hunger is among them.
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A Phoenix-based nonprofit that helps thousands of people obtain and keep a state-issued ID, which can mark the start of someone getting back on their feet, is expanding into a new space.
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CASS is the state’s largest mass homeless shelter, with 600 beds in a single location. Now, the organization has a new CEO who, besides overseeing CASS as well as a family shelter, will be managing the opening of a new facility for homeless seniors that was supposed to open two years ago.
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After years of being flush with federal funds tied to COVID relief, Phoenix expects to be short around a hundred million dollars over the next two fiscal years.
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Last week, gunshots fired into a Democratic Party campaign office in Tempe. But, it was given little attention in the press. It’s just the latest example of political violence in America and our tolerance for it.