The city's treatment of its unsheltered community is shameful. Ordinances such as this continue to attack the most vulnerable. This is violence against our community members. It is clearly a classist ordinance which has no data to support its wildly speculative claims. It is absurd to say that food and medical care are the direct cause of the problems the city claims the parks suffer from. Homelessness is a tragedy and it's criminalization is immoral.
There are resources/places to go. If there are handouts, yes, they will be accepted otherwise the majority do NOT want help. We have seen this. Have a park in our neighborhood and being a part of our block watch I personally have had to deal with killings, stabbings, feces, drug interactions, trash, etc. I wish I could add pictures. Parks are for people that want to use NOT to treat the homeless and for our taxes to keep cleaning over and over and repairing damage. And possible fake services.
Phoenix has been on a mission to exterminate the city's unsheltered community for years, pushing them further out of the city en masse while doing little to offer meaningful longterm solutions. Harm reduction is an evidence-based public health approach proven to lessen the consequences of drug use. Excluding the public from public spaces while denying food distribution to an already vulnerable population is just inhumane. These lives are in your hands, & this ordinance promises lethal outcomes.
As someone who has experienced homelessness and help support the unhoused community I can say that approving this ordinance would be devastating and affect the unhoused community in extremely negative ways. It is cruel to watch people with no where to go starve and be sick and potentially die because of these ailments that could have been easily prevented without an ordinance like this
The homeless population lives in city parks because they have no where else to go, and the community goes to the parks to help them. Until the city steps up to help these people belong somewhere and provides the same help the community is offering, we will not be able to enjoy the parks. The problem isn’t the community support, it’s the lack of the city’s support to those who need it most. This ordnance would make a vulnerable population more underserved.
The homeless population lives in city parks because they have no where else to go, and the community goes to the parks to help them. Until the city steps up to help these people belong somewhere and provides the same help the community is offering, we will not be able to enjoy the parks. The problem isn’t the community support, it’s the lack of the city’s support to those who need it most. This ordnance would make a vulnerable population more underserved.
Phoenix parks belong to families, children, and people in recovery — not harm reduction distribution operations. These organizations set up in public spaces with no outcome data, no treatment connections, and no accountability. They displace families, expose children to drug paraphernalia, and undermine recovery as a community value. Phoenix has the right to set standards for shared public spaces. Outreach belongs in clinics — not parks.
The city's treatment of its unsheltered community is shameful. Ordinances such as this continue to attack the most vulnerable. This is violence against our community members. It is clearly a classist ordinance which has no data to support its wildly speculative claims. It is absurd to say that food and medical care are the direct cause of the problems the city claims the parks suffer from. Homelessness is a tragedy and it's criminalization is immoral.
There are resources/places to go. If there are handouts, yes, they will be accepted otherwise the majority do NOT want help. We have seen this. Have a park in our neighborhood and being a part of our block watch I personally have had to deal with killings, stabbings, feces, drug interactions, trash, etc. I wish I could add pictures. Parks are for people that want to use NOT to treat the homeless and for our taxes to keep cleaning over and over and repairing damage. And possible fake services.
Not comfortable with the city allocating any resources toward this ordinance, third spaces are important for everyone
Phoenix has been on a mission to exterminate the city's unsheltered community for years, pushing them further out of the city en masse while doing little to offer meaningful longterm solutions. Harm reduction is an evidence-based public health approach proven to lessen the consequences of drug use. Excluding the public from public spaces while denying food distribution to an already vulnerable population is just inhumane. These lives are in your hands, & this ordinance promises lethal outcomes.
As someone who has experienced homelessness and help support the unhoused community I can say that approving this ordinance would be devastating and affect the unhoused community in extremely negative ways. It is cruel to watch people with no where to go starve and be sick and potentially die because of these ailments that could have been easily prevented without an ordinance like this
The homeless population lives in city parks because they have no where else to go, and the community goes to the parks to help them. Until the city steps up to help these people belong somewhere and provides the same help the community is offering, we will not be able to enjoy the parks. The problem isn’t the community support, it’s the lack of the city’s support to those who need it most. This ordnance would make a vulnerable population more underserved.
The homeless population lives in city parks because they have no where else to go, and the community goes to the parks to help them. Until the city steps up to help these people belong somewhere and provides the same help the community is offering, we will not be able to enjoy the parks. The problem isn’t the community support, it’s the lack of the city’s support to those who need it most. This ordnance would make a vulnerable population more underserved.
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Phoenix parks belong to families, children, and people in recovery — not harm reduction distribution operations. These organizations set up in public spaces with no outcome data, no treatment connections, and no accountability. They displace families, expose children to drug paraphernalia, and undermine recovery as a community value. Phoenix has the right to set standards for shared public spaces. Outreach belongs in clinics — not parks.
I strongly oppose to needles in the park but support regulation.