Posted on 05/09/2023 12:20:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The city of Phoenix, Arizona, is being sued by more than a dozen people who live and work near the largest homeless camp in the state over its “failure to address, and its exacerbation of the growing homelessness crisis within the city.”
They argued that the city does not offer shelter or resources to those who are homeless and does not enforce “quality of life ordinances” that forbid activities like loitering, intoxicated behavior, and drug use. […]
The Human Services Campus, which holds the largest homeless shelter in the state, is surrounded by the sizable homeless encampment known as “the Zone,” which is located just west of downtown.
About 500 individuals were residing in tents in the Zone prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. The campus reported that there were currently close to 900 residents, though this number varies and has occasionally reached 1,000. […]
The city would be required to address the Zone, either by moving it to a different location, setting up a planned camping place where cleanliness is maintained, or offering indoor shelter to people living on the streets. The residents sought the court’s permission to declare the Zone a public nuisance.
They also asked the court to declare the city’s involvement in “creating, expanding, operating and/or maintaining the Zone” unconstitutional. …
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That camp is located very close to Mater Misericordiae Catholic Church, so I am familiar with it. It is like being in the 3rd World over there. Shockingly close to the State Capitol, too.
Recently, in Sacramento, Kalifornia, people successfully used the courts to uproot large encampments under overpasses. Two people who use wheelchairs sued using the Americans w/ Disabilities Act (ADA). They could not travel from their homes due to the complete blockage of the sidewalk by the bums. Perhaps this method can be replicated elsewhere. Those that insist upon trying to live with no rules can be forced to locate themselves away from all of those who still want to preserve civilization. We can assist those willing to accept assistance without destroying our neighborhoods.
Just the fact that citizens have to sue town officials to get them to perform common sense governing duties that are owed to their constituents is a sorry testament to the times.
As is the case with the fools who applaud legalizing drugs. But, that's not within our purview. Is it? I'm in favor of building massive prisons to incarcerate these miscreants. Last time I was driving through the Mojave, there was plenty of land available.
Can you imagine the stink? All those unwashed bodies.
Florida's homeless should be put into the everglades...
We had a small Obamaville in our town a few years ago. The ownership of the land was in probate so the city had no authority to clear it out. The Police Chief was clear when he asked residents to NOT feed them, take blankets etc. The police did everything they legally could to encourage them to leave. They offered shelter beds and were told they weren’t wanted. The vagrants wanted to live in squalor.
Apparently the land ownership cleared up because not long after, the encampment was gone.
I’ve been stuck in Phoenix in the summer with no A/C before.
Anyone who would live as a homeless person there is definitely certifiable.
Put only sidewalks in the Mojave and Everglades?
That's the perfect place for the addicts to "dry out".
KEEP IN MIND——Wherever those “Homeless” move to-—it is SOMEONE’S ‘neighborhood’.
National Park-—and the burros & rattlesnakes don’t deserve such treatment.
The solution of Napalm comes to mind.
Unwashed people soon smell like cows in a feedlot.
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