A mutual aid group that feeds homeless people in downtown Phoenix just can’t get far enough away from Arizona State University, apparently.
Every Sunday evening for years, the group Food Not Bombs PHX set up a buffet-style meal on a patio attached to an ASU building overlooking Civic Space Park in downtown Phoenix. The leaderless mutual aid group serves food to homeless people once a week as a form of protest. But then in April, ASU kicked the group out of its spot, forcing it to move its events into the park itself. That put them in the crosshairs of a controversial new city ordinance limiting aid to homeless people in Phoenix parks, which the Phoenix City Council passed about two weeks later.
Now, in an attempt to comply with the ordinance while continuing its work, the group has moved its food service to a nearby, privately owned historic property. But that, too, could be at risk, again because of ASU. The university is seeking to seize and raze the home — the 124-year-old Louis Emerson House, located at 623 N. Fourth Street — to make way for its new health school headquarters…