I have an article, coauthored with my colleague Austen VanDerHeyden, in The Arizona Republic this morning about “The Zone”—the vast homeless shelter the city is operating on public streets in downtown Phoenix. Here’s an excerpt:
Shelters typically forbid people from drinking or using drugs, or engaging in other conduct on the premises that many of The Zone’s population would prefer to persist in. By letting people remain on the streets instead of moving to such a “high barrier” shelter, the city is effectively operating its own “low-barrier” shelter – that is, one where people can stay and ignore the law.
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