2 years after ‘the Zone,’ Phoenix’s campground homeless shelter is running smoothly, guests say

Michael Travis was living in a Phoenix apartment with his sister when their rent increased almost 30%. His sister moved out, he couldn’t afford the place on his own, and pretty soon, he faced the extremely stressful experience of living on the street.

“It’s a different day every day, there’s a lot of things going on, you got drugs going on, you got people dying outside,” Travis said.

He tried going to a homeless shelter, but he didn’t feel much safer inside the crowded, chaotic facility…

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