FILE - A large homeless encampment sits in Phoenix, on Aug. 5, 2020. The city is wrangling with two dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a homelessness crisis that has converted its downtown into a tent city housing hundreds of people under the blazing desert sun just as summer temperatures soar into the 90s.
FILE - A man sweeps the sidewalk as tents and crude lean-tos crowd the sidewalks where many homeless people live along the streets on March 24, 2020, in Phoenix. The city is wrangling with two dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a homelessness crisis that has converted its downtown into a tent city housing hundreds of people under the blazing desert sun just as summer temperatures soar into the 90s.
FILE - A large homeless encampment sits in Phoenix, on Aug. 5, 2020. The city is wrangling with two dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a homelessness crisis that has converted its downtown into a tent city housing hundreds of people under the blazing desert sun just as summer temperatures soar into the 90s.
Ross D. Franklin - staff, AP
FILE - A man sweeps the sidewalk as tents and crude lean-tos crowd the sidewalks where many homeless people live along the streets on March 24, 2020, in Phoenix. The city is wrangling with two dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a homelessness crisis that has converted its downtown into a tent city housing hundreds of people under the blazing desert sun just as summer temperatures soar into the 90s.
PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix is facing dueling lawsuits as it tries to manage a crisis of homelessness that has converted its downtown into a tent city housing hundreds of people as summer temperatures soar.
The city was ordered by the local Superior Court to clear out the downtown encampment because it is considered a “public nuisance.” But Arizona's American Civil Liberties Union argued in a federal lawsuit that the city is violating the constitutional rights of unhoused people by slowly clearing the area known as “The Zone.”
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