AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Chandler city staff: Homeless population growing, moving

Leia Powell, the city of Chandler’s director of neighborhood resources, speaks during a Jan. 23 work session as Ryan Peters, the city’s strategic initiatives director, listens. The mostly-informative half of the work session drove home the points about homelessness expanding into the East Valley in both total people and in which cities have issues.

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Leah Powell says “the spigot is on.”

The Chandler neighborhood resources director explained the growing homelessness problem in the city and in the Valley in terms of more people seeking homeless services than there are getting into housing and resolving their crises.

It’s happening by an almost 2-to-1 ratio, Powell said, speaking at a Jan. 23 Chandler City Council work session on homelessness services and law changes.

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Chandler city staff: Homeless population growing, moving

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