An ID is usually kept safe in your wallet and with you whenever you’re out in public, but for those experiencing homelessness, so many are lost without it.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on how American Rescue Plan funding is allocated and spent.
In part 1, we showed you what one non-profit organization and Maricopa County are doing to engage unsheltered people living far away from resources. From 2020-2022, Glendale saw a 138% increase in unsheltered people. According to the point-in-time homeless count for Maricopa County, the population grew from 170 to 406."This is definitely not work that is easy work. Often times we think, ‘well just house them, take them off the street, and put them into housing.
So far, the Phoenix Rescue Mission has received a little more than $1.8 million in pandemic relief. Because of increased funding, Goodman says services have expanded, like its Will Work program. The welcome center of the Human Services Campus is surrounded by the largest homeless encampment in Phoenix, known as "The Zone," which hovers around a thousand people from week to week.She needs food stamps, but to get those, she needs a state ID with the help of the Homeless ID Project.
The ID is the ticket to accessing resources from about 16 different agencies at the Human Services Campus. You also need an ID to get a job, housing, a car and to vote.
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