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PHOENIX - The City of Phoenix has begun the process of cleaning up a homeless encampment in the downtown area known as "The Zone.". The cleanup plan was released on April 21, almost a month after ...
At its height, close to 1,000 people lived in the downtown Phoenix homeless encampment called "The Zone." Soon, it will be empty. Local Sports Things To Do Politics Travel Advertise Obituaries ...
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - The City of Phoenix is going block by block to clean up the state’s largest homeless encampment near downtown Phoenix, known as ‘The Zone.’ ...
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) — The City of Phoenix detailed its latest “enhanced cleanings” effort to clean up the infamous area known as the “The Zone.” On Friday, city officials announced that ...
The downtown shelter expanded from 470 to 600 beds in 2022 and increased services to 24 hours per day to address Phoenix's rising homelessness crisis. Doing so raised CASS' operational costs, Glow ...
For the past several years, an urban encampment in downtown Phoenix commonly called “The Zone" has been home to a fluctuating group of people, sometimes going as large as 1,000 residents.
Phoenix asked Blaney to put his Sept. 20 ruling on hold. The "area should be clear a mere few months" after Blaney's Nov. 4 deadline under Phoenix's current plan for clearing The Zone, the filing ...
The homeless encampment known as "the Zone" in downtown Phoenix has grown exponentially in recent years. A judge ordered the site to be cleaned up by July. (Peter O'Dowd/Here & Now) Over the past ...
Here are Chad Benson’s thoughts after visiting The Zone in downtown Phoenix. Keith King went missing in May of 2006. Could a septic tank in an Arizona small town hold the answer to this 19-year ...
PHOENIX — Rebecca Sutton has no love for her patch of “the Zone,” a sprawling homeless camp on the edge of downtown Phoenix. There are overdoses and shootings, the sidewalk where she sleeps ...
The number of unsheltered Phoenix residents has risen dramatically, from 771 in 2014 to 3,096 in 2022, according to the city. As many as 1,100 people have slept outdoors in the Zone on a given night.
The number of people who live in The Zone, a homeless encampment just west of downtown Phoenix, appears to have declined significantly. "The only thing I know is they puttin' people in hotels.