Crimes of 'the Zone': Theft, assaults, drugs, unsanitary conditions plague area of downtown Phoenix tent city. jlumfox10
– home to the largest homeless encampment in Phoenix. At one point this year, the number of unsheltered people living in this downtown Phoenix camp reached more than 1,000.
Not far from the state capitol building is what you call a classic. A place to grab a sandwich during your lunch break, serving Phoenicians for decades. Not much has changed inside the Old Station Sub Shop near 13th Avenue and Jefferson Street since Joseph and Deborah Faillace opened their doors in 1986, yet so much surrounding this family business has."I call the mayor’s office. Same old story.
"I’d come in the morning, people would be sleeping at my front door, people would be sleeping at my pick-up windows, people would be sleeping on my tables," said Joseph. "Drugs and mental illness go right hand in hand and there’s all of that. Any day you can see people doing all kinds of crazy things. I mean swinging around, screaming at people who aren’t there, swinging at the sky, passing out in the street. It's a common thing."
After a long wait for a housing voucher, he has his own apartment but sees the homelessness crisis getting worse here. A 2018 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that cities cannot enforce anti-camping ordinances if there aren’t enough homeless shelter beds. J.R. knows what it feels like to be in need. That’s how he met Coplin and his wife when he lived on the streets in "the Zone".
Fire Station 1 is the closest station to "the Zone". Since 2019, there’s been a steady increase in calls for service, spiking in 2021 with 1,072 calls. And so far this year, with a little more than 900 calls, it is on pace to surpass the 2021 total.
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