Results: Huge homeless camp will be cleared after neighbors sued
Published on 05/09/2023
Phoenix must permanently clear the area that’s become known as the Zone after a judge ruled in favor of neighbors who sued the city, calling the encampment – next to a non-profit social services hub and blocks from the state Capitol and the city’s Major League Baseball stadium – an illegal “public nuisance.” -CNN
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While more states are passing controversial laws to ban public camping, Arizona's Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs this year vetoed one such bill, saying it only served to make homelessness "less visible." Do you agree or disagree with banning public camping?
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Debbie and Joe Faillace have owned Old Station Sub Shop, next to where the camp cropped up, for more than 30 years. They frequently discover property damage, drug paraphernalia and feces when they get to work, they said. "There's just a complete lawlessness, and it's getting worse," Debbie Faillace said. "We want our neighborhood back. We want to feel safe." They claimed the city had allowed its public spaces to violate its own public nuisance laws, with unsanitary conditions, drug use, violence and property crimes, fire hazards and blocked rights of way, court documents show. A judge in March ruled in their favor, giving the city a few months to eliminate the nuisance conditions, records show. Do you agree with the judge's decision to force the city to clear the homeless camp? Yes
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