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I know PHoenix is super hot in the summer but so is Palm Spring in Calif. and other Inland Empire cities that are in the desert. It can get up over 120 in the summer in parts of So. Calif.
I've been to multiple cities recently and the homeless situation is progressively getting worse.
They are everywhere in NYC, CHI, Miami, Austin, Philly, Orlando, etc. Not just city centers, but random places like highway exits and literally on the highway itself.
It's definitely an issue in big cities. I've seen this in Atlanta and San Antonio. I saw homeless people in the suburbs of San Antonio. I actually saw some homeless people sleeping on the street, literally across from the Alamo of all places. In Atlanta I sometimes saw homeless people sleeping at the MARTA stations.
And it's not just the big cities. Some of the smaller tier cities have alot of homeless people. I've seen homeless camps in Chattanooga and Huntsville. I drove past a homeless came in Chattanooga, during the winter and it was a shock. Drove past a homeless camp in Huntsville, under I-565. In Chattanooga it was more out in the open.
It's definitely an issue in big cities. I've seen this in Atlanta and San Antonio. I saw homeless people in the suburbs of San Antonio. I actually saw some homeless people sleeping on the street, literally across from the Alamo of all places. In Atlanta I sometimes saw homeless people sleeping at the MARTA stations.
And it's not just the big cities. Some of the smaller tier cities have alot of homeless people. I've seen homeless camps in Chattanooga and Huntsville. I drove past a homeless came in Chattanooga, during the winter and it was a shock. Drove past a homeless camp in Huntsville, under I-565. In Chattanooga it was more out in the open.
Atlanta's bad. They wander in the middle of freeway entrance ramps begging. One of them will get hit and killed before too long, but the police and Atlanta don't care. There are numerous tents near the freeways downtown.
Atlanta's bad. They wander in the middle of freeway entrance ramps begging. One of them will get hit and killed before too long, but the police and Atlanta don't care. There are numerous tents near the freeways downtown.
That actually happened one day literally as I was heading into work. A homeless man was killed by passing car. This wasn't on the freeway. It was on a surface street.
I saw homeless camps as far out as Kennesaw (back in the late 2000s/early 2010s).
It's everywhere. I've seen it in San Antonio. I've seen it in Huntsville, Chattanooga, and Nashville (saw homeless people sleeping around the Riverfront).
Literally, stepped over a guy to enter a convenience store here in Phoenix. (Party Store for any Michiganders here...)
Used to be....summertime came and the vagabonds split for cooler climes.
Not anymore.
They're starting to defecate behind our home.
Two young gals (20-something) with masks & hoodies rang the doorbell to inquire if our home was for sale. I'm somewhat confident that their boyfriends were lurking nearby....maybe casing the joint to see if we're home or not.
Friends down the street had their tandem bicycle stolen from their back yard. Locked gate? Heh. They scaled the 6 ft wall to take it.
^^^^Sorry to hear this. A relative has told us that Phoenix has a huge skid row that looks like the one in LA --- Tents taking over sidewalks for several blocks. He also has to get up very early to go to his job and said he sees homeless people sleeping on the sidewalks along the way --- even in pricey areas like Scottsdale.
Where we live, nearby are 2 shelters---one for women and the other for men, many who are mentally ill. The shelters kick them out during the day with the expectation that they all would be job hunting then. Then there are those who don't use the shelters. Instead, they sleep in a pedestrian underpass. Locals are told to avoid using the underpass after dark. Sometimes people have to take their dogs out at night and encounter a stark raving mad homeless person, which is scary.
We, too, have them hanging out by the exit at the local Target, which has some holding signs claiming they are veterans (hard to know if it's true or not). Now and then a few hang out in the islands in the middle of pedestrian crossings. That way they can hassle those who are waiting for the light to change.
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