Homelessness

The Curious Death of Sergeant Sean Drenth

Phoenix's Most At-Risk Homeless Find Their Way, Thanks to a Team of "Navigators"

Meet Raven, a Homeless Man With More Community Than Many of Us Have

Phoenix's Homeless Escape the Summer Heat to the Big Rock Candy Mountains of Flagstaff

The Name of a Shooting Victim Is Uncovered, and a Divide Is Exposed in Phoenix's St. Matthew Neighborhood

Palin and Tea Party Rhetoric Was Not the Reason Gabrielle Giffords Was Attacked -- America's Treatment of Mental Illness Is to Blame

​The attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the incidental execution of Arizona's Chief Federal Judge, the collateral killing of five bystanders, including a child, and the deranged wounding of 14 politically curious civilians is not the result of the First Amendment's pe ... More >>

Homeless Tempe Man Gets Day of Recognition for Returning Thousands of Dollars to ASU Student

Dave Talley (right), a homeless Tempe man, returned more than $3,000 to an ASU student.​Yesterday was officially "Dave Talley Day" in Tempe, as declared by Mayor Hugh Hallman.Talley, you may recall, returned a bag he found at Light Rail station to its proper owner, an ASU student.The story wouldn' ... More >>

Mesa Transient Stabs Other Mesa Transient. Suspect Rode Off on Pink Beach Cruiser

www.homelessness.change.org​A homeless Mesa man got knifed up by a woman -- who also happened to be a Mesa transient -- yesterday morning and then denied that the woman had anything to do with the stabbing.Police got a call around 10 a.m. yesterday about a stabbing at 418 South Macdonald Road. Whe ... More >>

"Homeless Candidate" Recruiter Steve May Bails on Campaign Following News of His Extremely Extreme DUI

The homeless people Steve May recruited to run in local elections now have a better shot at being elected than he does. How's that for irony?​Steve May, a now-former Republican candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives -- best known for recruiting homeless people to run as Green Party can ... More >>

Jimmy Wayne Fans are Pissed at New Times for Dissing Their Hero. We're, Um, Sorry

www.billboard.com Homeless hero Jimmy Wayne​ Fans of country music star Jimmy Wayne -- from California to Connecticut -- are furious over a Valley Fever post that mildly criticized Wayne's charity walk for the homeless from Nashville to Phoenix. We would like to take the opp ... More >>

Board Agrees With City of Phoenix: Church Must Stop Feeding Hobos

www.motivatedphoto.com​A Phoenix church was ordered again today to stop feeding homeless people. After a lengthy discussion in the city of Phoenix's Board of Adjustments yesterday, the board agreed with the city's earlier decision to force the Cross Roads Methodist Church to ... More >>

Country Star Jimmy Wayne Plans Freezing-Cold Charity Walk From Nashville to Phoenix

​Country music star Jimmy Wayne is leaving Nashville and coming to the Valley, and he's doing it the hard way -- he's walking. Wayne, responsible for trailer-park love ballads like "Stay Gone," and "Blue and Brown," will be leaving Nashville, Tennessee, on foot on January 1 in an at ... More >>

The Great Pancake Shakedown

Lodestar Day Resource Center at the Downtown Phoenix Homeless Campus Offers Art Classes and a Place to Create

Arizona Child Protective Services Often Unable to Help Homeless Children

Flickr creative commonsHomeless woman and child. A recent headline reported that there are now 25,000 homeless children in the Arizona public school system. We wondered -- after reading in the Arizona Republic that this number of homeless kids is equivalent to the population of Fountain hills - ... More >>

The Cats of Mirikitani

Transient Honored in Phoenix for Returning Wallet With Cash

Image Source: Wikimedia CommonsUsually, when cops talk to Rodney Hapney, 42, it's because they're arresting the transient for trespassing or some other minor, though troublesome, offense. Police went looking for Hapney yesterday for a different reason -- to thank him.Hapney, who lives occasionally i ... More >>

On the Lack of Latino Panhandlers, and Those Famous Mexican Words

Charity Show: Bring A Sleeping Bag or $8

By Martin Cizmar Maybe it’s the holiday spirit, but I’ve had a lot of people pitching charity concerts to me in the last couple weeks. “Do you like beer? Do you like charity? Do you like bikes?” my friend Candace asked, not intentionally sounding like an Amway rep. Anyway, there’s ton ... More >>

A Paradise Valley homeless man who burned to death in December may have been tortured

No-Pee Zone

Flunk'd

The Thomas J. Pappas School gives homeless kids everything they need — except a good education

Phoenix Means Well

The feathered fiend bombs a naive national homeless advocate, then woodpecks haughty City Hall suits and clueless condo yups in Tempe

Crying Shame

Carl Gholson was a gifted sax player. He was also a paranoid schizophrenic. He became another victim of Phoenix’s scorching heat

Doomed River

The Southwest's last free-flowing stream ran dry for eight days in mid-July. It's time to act

Don't Park It

Homeless for the holidays

BEST TORTILLAS

Carolina's Mexican Food Restaurant

Jingle Belle

New Times interrogates that annoying Christmas bell ringer.

Crack Addicts, Political Shenanigans and Indian Relics

Only in Phoenix is this a formula for a real estate hustle

Cooking Up a New Life

Homeless residents show appetite for shelter's Apprentice Chef Program

Street Without Hope

On Madison Street, crowds of crack-addicted homeless are plaguing police and downtown businesses. But no one seems to be doing much about it.

Letters

Disarm the Clueless

Our April 1 story was made up -- these responses weren't

Give Piece a Chance

Arm the Homeless stages a firearms giveaway for Phoenix vagrants.

Flashes

Letters

A Capitol Idea

Phoenix Community Alliance's new plan for the Capitol Mall sends the homeless scrambling while the city looks the other way

Citizen Celeste

Mill Rats

TIMBERLAKE AND THE BOYS IN BRIGHT BLAZERS

HOMELESS ON THE RANGE

GOP leaders want local governments to run social programs and charities to assume more of the burden. Neither idea is working in Kingman, where no good deed goes unpunished.

Median Income

Homeless people hawk three different publications on curbs all over the Valley. What's brought about the proliferation of street sheets, and who, if anyone, benefits?

ROOFLESS PEOPLE

POLS TO THE WALL

LOSING IT

SIDEWALK STORIES

LOVE FOUND A HOME HERE'S THE MOST RECENT CHAPTER IN AN ALREADY FLAMBOYANT LIFE

A HOUSE DIVIDED

A WINTER OF DISCONTENT AMONG ADVOCATES OF THE HOMELESS

A HOUSE DIVIDED A WINTER OF DISCONTENT AMONG ADVOCATES OF THE HOMELESS