Lawmakers split on how to solve homeless crisis in Phoenix

Start paying mental health workers, low level medical workers, and teachers better. That'll not only boost the current helping system, but also prevent future hobos, and also make current workers more effective at doing their job.

Open the mental institutions/ rehab areas. Ship them there, majority of them need to spend couple of years there.

Simple. First you address the underlying issues that have caused the homelessness. Drug rehab, mental health rehab, physical rehab. Qualified professionals with the resources needed to house, feed, care, and most importantly watch over the homeless. But society as a whole especially most government agencies do not have the real desire to fix the problem.

Multiple solutions are needed. The main one must be a safety net that catches people before they hit the street. All homeless people know they are headed that way long before they get there. Most of them are employed and see themselves failing but don't know what to do. They search for low cost living arrangements. But only fine laws that prevent them from achieving it. If they tried an RV live it's doomed to failure for multiple reasons. The answer lies in the 230,000,000 homeowners in the United States. If a law could be crafted nationwide that allowed every homeowner to rent out one or more rooms in their home and get a complete tax break in every conceivable way to do so. When people would never hit the street homeowners would seek out anyone who's having trouble that they know and can trust and will immediately want to move them in while they are still working. We must catch people before they hit the streets at that point they will quickly slide downhill and become unemployable and more indigent by the day. The upside also on this would be that homeowners who are in financial stress would get some much needed relief. And could take advantage of tax breaks on improving their homes for this purpose. As well as a complete tax write off for the income earned.

Being homeless causes addiction. Treatment without a home is futile. There are 4,000 to 8,000 evictions per month.

None profit companies ceo make 100s of thousands. Drug problems is the issues.

Ah, yes they are throw away people, they threw themselves away years before and now the taxpayer is on the hook to keep them from the final drop off the cliff which they daily edge towards. END IT. This stupidity will go on forever because the policies are weak and enabling.

Something needs to be done. All over the Valley is looking dirty and trashy due to all the trash the homeless are leaving behind. The exits all along the I-17 need to be patrolled and cleaned on a weekly basis. No sense in our exits and freeways looking like they do. I understand people have fallen on hard times but when people are slumped over due to heavy drug use, screaming random curse words AND REFUSING help after Phoenix Cares has been dispatched, then roaming the streets and leaving filthy trash all over shouldn’t be an option.

The government could create a more organic safety net by simply giving very generous tax breaks to homeowners who rent out a room, For mother-in-law cabin On their property, Or possibly a regulated RV in their home. The income the homeowner gets from it would be non taxable. As well as they could take advantage of home improvement tax breaks. This would mean that they would rent out their rooms to people before they actually hit the street and fell into a state of non employability. It's important to catch people at that point while there's still employed but realized they are heading into homelessness for whatever reason. Of course many will still fall short of this safety net. But by making it a national program Homeowners will be encouraged financially to seek out candidates who are still employed and in somewhat good health and condition. This would also lower the cost of renting apartments due to have fundamental migration from high priced home and apartment rentals to low cost room rentals. Of course local regulations would be needed to fit each geographic area. But formalizing it in this way would help homeowners who are on the brink of losing their homes as well as the homeless and then near homeless.

Shouldn’t have POCKETED all that FED money to fix it! Maybe right? Instead of building a low income complex, you built yourselves bigger houses

It's simple. If they refuse treatment they should be placed into a facility.

Create a 'zone' in the middle of Scottsdale. This way they get some nice stuff.

UBI for all the homeless. Don't force office workers to physically come into work just turn all those tall office building into housing for the homeless. Repeal the Right to Work law. Go after RealPages for bumping up the prices for rent continuously.

Hold these scams companies accountable for tax payers funds. We had this before in the 90s and we created laws stopped people doing drugs openly

Go Amy Schwabenlender

Gas an matches

OK I would like to weigh in on this subject and the reason I would like to it’s because I’ve been on the street for 10+ years I don’t do drugs I don’t smoke I don’t even drink my issue is that I never had a family dynamics and I realize something they are no different than we are sure you might look upon them with a different pair of eyes after I give you some advice the people who you see on the streets went to high school maybe they even got a degree but then something happened that made them feel like they weren’t worth anything and that’s why I wanted to weigh in on this subject because I think the only way to stop homelessness worldwide is to help them believe in themselves again even the ones that we call critical do you know the ones that talk to themselves when they’re on the streets because honestly some of them are not as bad as one might think. If you actually sat down for a moment and talked with one of them ask them what it would take for them to get off the streets their first answer to you would be at home I don’t believe they’re talking about an apartment they’re talking about a family dynamic they’re talking about a program that even if they’re screaming at the top of their lungs and make a mess it’s not gonna turn their back on him I should know I have seen firsthand what can happen when people believe in themselves so once you start getting someone believing in themselves everything else will fall into place but we don’t have any programs like that we don’t have programs to make people feel like family I have never seen a program where if you came off the street made you feel like you were at home because to them it’s all about money it’s all about funding but what if it wasn’t what if there’s a program out there for the people now I know what you’re thinking you’re thinking I’m crazy nope if you seriously want to end homelessness you can ask me how to do it

If SSA would allow those on SSI and SSDI to live outside the US all year much of the homeless problem would be solved. $1000 USD would spend like $3000 in Mexico where basic private rooms with a twin bed, chair and dresser, kitchen, bathrooms and TV room down the hall and includes Wifi and utilities for $104 a month. Drug addicts not welcome of course. For that you need other solutions. And not send too many to any region as it typically raises rent and other costs for Natives if too many Americans come. So not a complete solution but a start.

People who think lack of a home is the issue have no idea about homelessness

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