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Mar 22 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
🧵 I want to share a message I just sent to Scott Hall (PHX Homeless Solutions) & @laurapastoraz my councilwoman: Good morning. Last night around 9:30pm I got a call from some fellow advocates about a 78 year old woman sitting on her walker on the corner of 12th Ave. & Jefferson.
2/ Her name is Anna. She was wearing only a flowered muumuu and her phone was dead. Prior to her phone dying, she had called 911 twice - but they never came.
Mar 28, 2023 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
🧵 For the past 15 yrs. I’ve done volunteer street outreach in #Phoenix with our unsheltered community. I’ve also tracked the rise in our unsheltered folks dying + our alarming number of heat deaths, as well as advocated for common sense SOLUTIONS.
Many people are out to make advocates + unsheltered folks the “bad guys” in this story, which is BS. This is basically a failure of city, county & state over a number of years to not act proactively or responsibly, creating the perfect storm we see today. A huge & complex issue.
