After seeing a steady increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness, the city of Mesa is now starting to turn things around.
According to the annual Point-In-Time Homelessness Count done by the Maricopa Association of Governments, there are 366 people living on the streets of Mesa as of 2023. That's a drop from 2022.
"You see the zone. You see any time you travel to California or the Northern Pacific, or any big city in the United States, many cities in Texas and it's just everywhere. It's ubiquitous. You know, tent cities and encampments and you're overwhelmed by homelessness. So, that's [...] that's where we might end up. So, I think it's important that we run as fast as we can to the front of this problem and do everything we can to avoid that," said Mayor Giles.
"We have a motel on East Main that we want to acquire that will be a legacy from the pandemic that for generations, we'll be able to point to as something good that came out of the pandemic. Our community court program, where rather than taking a punitive approach to enforcing laws, we use it as a way to get services to people," said Giles.
Mesa's Strategy to address homelessness also relies on nonprofits and church organizations working together to help people get the resources they need to get back on their feet.
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