The Human Services Campus in downtown Phoenix is opening a 100-bed overnight shelter. This is the first time this type of pre-fab structure is being used as an emergency shelter in Maricopa County.It’s called Respiro, which is Spanish for respite. Amy Schwabenlender is the executive director of the Human Services Campus. She says the goal is to shelter people who are living on
These people living in the streets are our neighbors, and we have a duty to treat them like neighbors. Trash and waste can be thrown away. Things that are broken can be replaced. But human lives that are lost on the streets of our city cannot be brought back.
Voters in southwest Phoenix will soon decide an influential City Council race that may help chart the course of the city for the next few years.
Those living in District 7 have a choice in the March 9 election between two candidates: Yassamin Ansari and Cinthia Estela.
The city is mailing early ballots out this week, and in-person voting began at City Hall on Feb. 10. Here’s more on how and where to vote, and where to look up your district.
Phoenix has two council races on the March ballot. The other is the District 3 race in north-central and parts of north Phoenix, where incumbent Debra Stark faces challenger Nicole Garcia.