Unsheltered: Don't stay long

JAN 6, 202311 MIN
UnAffordable and UnSheltered

Unsheltered: Don't stay long

JAN 6, 202311 MIN

Description

Hundreds of unhoused people used to live in tents on the Salt River near Tempe Town Lake. But in August, Tempe made the riverbed a no-trespassing zone. In a city that doesn’t have a purpose-built shelter, where did the people living in the riverbed go? And what mechanisms are in place to help them? This episode is about options for emergency shelter in Tempe, and how city government and non profits have been working to help.