Amy Schwabenlender, Author at Keys to Change | Arizona

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Every legislator should spend time doing outreach to people on the streets to really connect with and understand unsheltered homelessness.

I’m left with the desire to plead that people take care of each other, stop being mean to one another. Teach empathy and compassion.

Everyone deserves affordable healthcare and affordable housing. None of us should be forced to make that choice. Housing is healthcare.

Local point-in-time data released today for Maricopa County shows just over 5,000 unsheltered people (up 35% since 2020).

We don’t need rescuers and saviors to address homelessness and the housing crisis, we need courageous leaders.

In searching for some meaning of it being Tuesday 2-22-22, here is a list of 22 things I am thinking about.

I’m silently grateful she didn’t ask me if there was a space for her. I would have to say, “no, and I don’t know where you can go.”

The resilience and resourcefulness of unsheltered people amazes me. But, we are in a no-win situation because being unhoused is not a crime.

We must examine the root causes that lead people to lose their homes. Then we must help people keep their homes.

It’s not physically or mentally healthy for a community to have hundreds and thousands of people unsheltered and unhoused.