The state’s largest emergency shelter program may soon have to cut services to people experiencing homelessness. Central Arizona Shelter Services, known as CASS, serves the Valley and its biggest shelter is near downtown Phoenix. Thanks to an infusion of federal funds related to the pandemic and recovery, CASS was able to increase its beds from 470 to 650. But, now, cuts could
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Phoenix city leaders are working to create a community-wide plan to help save people from extreme heat in the Valley. The heat response plan would mainly focus on the homeless camp downtown, where hundreds of people live in tents and other makeshift shelters.