'City of a Thousand': Advocates blame housing crisis, rent hikes for homeless encampment boom

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Under-resourced. Under-housed. In part two of a 'City of a Thousand,' jlumfox10 takes a look at the resources, or lack thereof, that homeless advocates believe are leading to the encampment boom in Phoenix.

is putting a strain on resources, and service providers are just trying to keep up with the growing encampment out on the streets.

"The next phase is to hire staff, so we can be open during the day in order for those 100 people who sleep here overnight to be able to stay in here during the day or come and go as they need to, to go to appointments to go on job interviews to do whatever they need to do and really have this as their home base," says Amy Schwabenlender, the executive director of HSC.

"We're under-resourced to the extent we need more funding for more shelter beds. We're hiring just like everybody across the country. We need to hire more people because we're rapidly growing and we're adding a lot more capacity," Glow explained. The University of Pennsylvania did a 2019 study on the aging homeless population using census data from New York City, Boston and Los Angeles County. Projections suggest that the amount of the nation’s unhoused people older than 65 will nearly triple from 40,000 in 2017 to 106,000 by 2030.

The city’s Landlord Incentive Program disbursed $500,000 to nearly 600 landlords who accepted housing vouchers from those trying to get off the streets. The Phoenix City Council recently approved increased incentive payments of $2,000 to get more landlords interested.

 

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jlumfox10 Must be all those needless regulations keeping folks from having a home.

jlumfox10 Of they are on the streets instead of shelters then they are most likely addicts. Let’s address the addiction problem.

jlumfox10 How about skyrocketing rents? Helium inflated housing prices? All driven by mega investors from out of state…

jlumfox10 Dem run city.

jlumfox10 You know it’s bad when you see homeless people even in Scottsdale

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