Hmmm do you think WA has more bums than phoenix? So we have a place in Phoenix called Central Arizona Shelter Services, my job takes me there a lot
They have a lot of homeless outreach there, but what they don't have is enough shelter, just an overflow which is basically one gymnasium with some cots. Outside the place its tents for probably about 2 blocks in every direction. Sort of like a mini skid row. If I had to estimate, at any given time there are probably about 400ish homeless just in a single 1 block by 1 block square. CASS is super sketchy btw, if we're ever helping a homeless person who is by themselves at a park or whereever, we always advise them to stay where they are that night and go to CASS during the day. But I'd say 90% of homeless that have ever been there, never want to go back "F that! I'm not going back to CASS. I was assaulted there last year". I don't blame em
Let me check, looks like 3,767 homeless in my county last count
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